Friday, April 3, 2009

Hearing Motion Synesthesia Test


Hearing-motion synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which sights are involuntarily perceived as sounds. Can you hear visual motion?

"Hearing-motion" Demo

Different forms of synesthesia have been studied for years, but it was only last year that synesthetes who perceive sound from visuals were reported:

The Sound of Change: Visually-induced Auditory Synesthesia by Melissa Saenz and Christof Koch [pdf]

2 comments:

  1. No, this doesn't trigger anything, but I taste mashed potatoes when I see it. I'm a different kind.

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