psychopathology: synesthesia
Usually used in the plural, synesthesias refers to the experience of sensation in a secondary sensory modality that is triggered by a stimulus in the primary modality. For example, seeing the color red might produce a smell of cinnamon. These are further named by the secondary modality as phonisms, photisms, olfactisms, gustatisms, etc.
Also: synaesthesia, synesthetic
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Books and Other
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- Harrison, John Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing (Hardcover - June 2001)
- Harrison, John Synaesthesia: Classic and Contemporary Readings Hardcover | Paperback (December 1996)
- Dann, Kevin T.
Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for
Transcendental Knowledge
(Hardcover - October 1998)