I: General Overview
1: Noam Sagiv: Synesthesia in perspective
2: Sean Day: Some demographic and socio-cultural aspects of
Synesthesia
3: Christopher W. Tyler: Varieties of Synesthetic Experience
II: Perception and Attention
4: Randolph Blake, Thomas J. Palmeri, Rene Marois and Chai-Youn
Kim: On the perceptual reality of synesthetic color
5: Daniel Smilek, Mike J. Dixon and Philip M. Merikle: Binding of
graphemes and synesthetic colors in grapheme-color Synesthesia
6: Noam Sagiv and Lynne C. Robertson: Synesthesia and the binding
problem
7: Anina N. Rich and Jason B. Mattingley: Can attention modulate
color-graphemic Synesthesia?
III: Consciousness and Cognition
8: Jeffrey Gray: Synesthesia: A window on the hard problem of
consciousness
9: V.S. Ramachandran and Edward Hubbard: Emergence of the human
mind: Some clues from Synesthesia
IV: Development and Learning
10: Daphne Maurer and Catharine J. Mondloch: Neonatal synesthesia:
A re-evaluation
11: Lawrence E. Marks & Eric C. Odgaard: Development constraints on
theories of Synesthesia
V: Comment
12: Anne Treisman: Synesthesia: Implications for attention, binding
and consciousness: A commentary
Lynn Robertson has been studying abnormal perception and attention
for over 20 years. Her early experiments in visual spatial deficits
and hemispheric asymmetries are now classic, and she was one of the
first wave of experimentally trained psychologists to integrate
cognitive psychology with human neuropsychology, creating the field
that has become known as cognitive neuroscience. Her recent work
incorporates the study of unusual developmental
visual phenomena, such as those found in synesthesia.
Noam Sagiv received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in cognitive
psychology after studying physics, chemistry, and neurobiology at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is now a research fellow at
University College London. He studies visual perception in normal
subjects, neurological patients and special populations using
behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging methods. He is
particularly interested in positive phenomena such as synesthesia,
metamorphopsia, and
hallucinations.
Overall, this work provides a broad cross-section of interest for synaesthesia researchers, and does so in a readable and comprehensive way. The division into subsections makes the relationship between each paper more explicit, and the detailed index is particularly useful. I recommend this book to researchers and students, in philosophy, psychology, or neuroscience, and it is a must-read for those wishing to get acquainted with this unusual and fascinating phenomenon. Perception, Vol 34
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