May 17, 2018June 14, 2018

The CHRYSANTHEMUM REPORT

Sensory News Aggregation and Commentary

“Up to one in five people may show signs of a synesthesia-like phenomenon in which they ‘hear’ silent flashes or movement, according to a new study from City, University of London.

While the effect is barely known to science, the researchers found that this ‘visually-evoked auditory response’ (vEAR) is far more common than other types of synesthesia – such when certain sounds elicit a specific colour – with flashing lights and motion evoking vivid sounds.

The survival of this association may also explain other links between sound and vision, such as why we like to listen to music synchronised with flashing lights or dance.

…While other typical synesthesias are estimated to have an overall prevalence of 4.4 per cent, the vEAR effect has recently gained some prominence on social media following the rise of ‘noisy GIFs’, and in particular the ‘thudding pylon’ GIF which received thousands of retweets.”

— Wigmore, G. (City University London, 2018) Why Do Some People ‘Hear’ Silent Flashes?

Selected Reads

Halcyon Entrancement

Can you hear the pylons thudding in this silent gif?

Chuckles

Do you hear “yanny” or laurel”? It’s a “yanny” for me.

Sources

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/science/yanny-laurel.html

http://www.core77.com/posts/77681/Fords-Experimental-Haptic-Glass-Helps-the-Blind-See

https://thenextweb.com/science/2018/05/15/scientists-ripped-a-memory-from-one-snail-and-injected-it-into-another/

https://newatlas.com/transfer-memory-rna/54598/

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2018/0515/Where-the-wild-books-are

https://www.learning-mind.com/7-chakras-issues/

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/17-small-but-significant-lifestyle-changes-that_us_5af4ab26e4b0cd87a2a995b2

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/difference-social-anxiety-introversion_us_5adf5e6de4b07560f3961226

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-05-15-as-expectations-of-teachers-change-administrators-rethink-their-observation-practices

https://www.etsy.com/listing/506756563/isle-of-lovely-muzzles-innovative

http://neurosciencenews.com/vr-spatial-perception-9013/

https://curiosity.com/topics/resonant-breathing-can-calm-you-down-in-a-matter-of-minutes-curiosity/

https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/my-way-matinee

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/synesthesia-where-you-can-see-sounds-and-taste-colors-may-have-a-genetic-basis

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