An exploratory study of syncretic experience: eidetics, synaesthesia and absorption.
Synaesthesia and eidetic imagery are both syncretic experiences entailing a dedifferentiation of perceptual qualities. In this paper the correlation between synaesthesia and eidetic imagery is explored. Ten subjects selected for possible eidetic and/or synaesthetic ability were tested in a battery of tasks that tap structural and typographic eidetic imagery, and colour-hearing and colour-mood synaesthesia. It was found that both structural and typographic eidetic imagery were correlated with measures of synaesthesia, indicating a relationship between the two phenomena.
Glicksohn
J
J
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
Salinger
O
O
Roychman
A
A
D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001245:Association Learning; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D003118:Color Perception; D004538:Eidetic Imagery; D005260:Female; D005366:Figural Aftereffect; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D010268:Parapsychology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010465:Perception