Can swimming evoke synesthesia? Apparently yes

accord to researchers at Frankfurt ’s Max - Planck Institute for Brain Research , the sight of sealed swim strokes can evoke colors in synaesthetic bather .

Here ’s an excerption of their findings , which were issue recently in the journalCortex :

We report here the cases of two synesthetes , experienced swimmers , for whom each swim manner evokes another synesthetic color . significantly , synesthesia is evoked also in the absence of lineal centripetal arousal , i.e. , the proprioceptive input during swim . To evoke synaesthetic colors , it is sufficient to evoke the conception of a pay swimming stylus for instance , by point a photo of a swimming person . A color - consistency test and a Stroop - type test indicated that the synesthesia is genuine . These finding imply that synesthetic inducers do not operate at a sensory level but rather , at the semantic level at which construct are evoked . Hence , the inducers are not defined by the sensory system - dependent sensations but by the “ ideas ” activated by these sensations .

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