I know when something is in key because it either matches the same color or it doesn’t.” Other individuals with chromesthesia experience color with all sounds, not solely music. He is very open about his gift and claims, “It’s the only way that I can identify what something sounds like. Pharrell and some other chromesthetes see colors when they hear music.
This certainly applies to Pharrell Williams who is known to have chromesthesia.
Synesthetes often show increased creativity, so it is no surprise that people with synesthetic experiences are more likely to work in creative fields such as art or music. There are dozens of different types of synesthesia currently known and additional types continue to be discovered. However, researchers believe that the multiple genes responsible for synesthesia may allow the brain to maintain some of its multisensory streams which cause the phenomenon. As the brain develops in early childhood, synaptic pruning, the elimination of neuronal connections, normally separates some of the multisensory pathways in infants. However, early research on the infant-synesthesia hypothesis which specifically studied shape-color preferences in infants and adults found that two and three-month-old babies showed stronger preference for certain shape-colors associations compared to eight-month-old infants (little preference) and adults (no notable preference). Since researchers cannot fully understand how babies experience the world it remains unclear as to whether all humans were once synesthetes as babies. Researchers know that babies are multisensory so that when one sensory region is activated in the brain, another region can also be activated. Infants may experience the world like a synesthete. Synesthetes within a family could all have different types of synesthesia! This means that, one family member could associate numbers with colors and another family member could experience tactile perceptions to sound.
However, the type of synesthesia that one may have is non-genetic. Synesthesia is largely genetic and subsequently present within families. In fact you probably know a synesthete, even if you do not realize it! Current research on synesthesia focuses on understanding the neurophysiology and biological basis of this condition. Researchers estimate that approximately one in 2,000 people have synesthesia. Cytowic started extensively researching synesthesia and published a book about a man who tasted shapes (which was, in fact, entitled “The Man Who Tasted Shapes”), that scientists became intrigued by the condition and began additional research on the phenomenon. It was not until the 1980’s when Richard E. In the past, synesthetes were considered ill and fanciful. The perception of no two individuals is exactly alike.Īlthough the reality of a synesthete, an individual with synesthesia, seems to be unique and extraordinary, little is known about the condition as, historically, many synesthetes were afraid to reveal their uncommon perceptions of the world. Any two individuals with grapheme-color synesthesia perceive letters and numbers in different color combinations. The letter “A” may be red, or the number “5” the color green. For example, individuals with the common form of synesthesia, grapheme-color synesthesia, perceive numbers and letters with colors. The term “synesthesia”, which is derived from the Greek words syn (together) and aesthesis (perception), denotes the neurological phenomenon of blended senses: the activation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to accompanying, involuntary experiences in a second pathway. “Our brains are not passive receivers of energy flux, but dynamic explorers that actively seek out the stimuli that interest them and determine their own contexts for perception.” ~ Richard E. A Beautiful Mind: The Reality of Synesthetes
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