The QUEST For CONSCIOUSNESS
In his book, Christof Koch, chapter 8, page 138, he writes:
("In colored-hearing, certain words, sounds, or music consistently evoke particular colors. As in other forms of synesthesia, color-hearing is automatic, involuntary, and stable across many years. Celebrated famously in Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception, it is a condition that some individuals are fortunate enough to enjoy throughout life without the use of any drugs. Hue percepts evoked by words trigger brain activity in the same part of the fusiform gyrus of synesthetes as color stimuli. . . . .")
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Perhaps those perp words and projected sounds that we hear are addressing more regions of our brains than just the auditory area.
Bob D.
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In his book, The QUEST for CONSCIOUSNESS: A Neurobiological Approach
by Christof Koch
and Forward by Francis Crick
ISBN: 0-9747077-0-8
Chapter 8: GOING BEYOND THE PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX
page 140
THE SELECTIVE LOSS OF MOTION PERCEPTION
("What happens if MT (brain's middle temporal area) is destroyed? . . . . L.M., a neurological patient, strikingly demonstrates the highly particular nature of perceptual deficits that can be observed. She lost MT and other, nearby regions on both sides of her brain to a vascular disorder. This rare occurrence causes a devastating motion blindness or, to use Zeki's term, akinetopsia. According to the original report.
She had difficulty, for example, in pouring tea or coffee into a cup because the fluid appeared to be frozen, like a glacier. In addition, she could not stop pouring at the right time since she was unable to perceive the movement in the cup (or a pot) when the fluid rose. . . . . In a room where more than two other people were walking she felt insecure and unwell, and usually left the room immediately, because "people were suddenly here and or there but I have not seen them moving." . . . . She could not cross the street because of her inability to judge the speed of a car, but she could identify the car itself without difficulty. . . . .
L.M. could infer that objects moved by comparing their relative position in time, but she never saw motion. Nevertheless, she has normal color and form perception, spatial acuity, and can detect flickering lights. It was as if she lived in a world illuminated by a stroboscopic lamp, not unlike a disco . . . or like watching a greatly slowed-down movie, in which the individual frames are visible . . . .")
Bob D.
("In colored-hearing, certain words, sounds, or music consistently evoke particular colors. As in other forms of synesthesia, color-hearing is automatic, involuntary, and stable across many years. Celebrated famously in Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception, it is a condition that some individuals are fortunate enough to enjoy throughout life without the use of any drugs. Hue percepts evoked by words trigger brain activity in the same part of the fusiform gyrus of synesthetes as color stimuli. . . . .")
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Perhaps those perp words and projected sounds that we hear are addressing more regions of our brains than just the auditory area.
Bob D.
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In his book, The QUEST for CONSCIOUSNESS: A Neurobiological Approach
by Christof Koch
and Forward by Francis Crick
ISBN: 0-9747077-0-8
Chapter 8: GOING BEYOND THE PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX
page 140
THE SELECTIVE LOSS OF MOTION PERCEPTION
("What happens if MT (brain's middle temporal area) is destroyed? . . . . L.M., a neurological patient, strikingly demonstrates the highly particular nature of perceptual deficits that can be observed. She lost MT and other, nearby regions on both sides of her brain to a vascular disorder. This rare occurrence causes a devastating motion blindness or, to use Zeki's term, akinetopsia. According to the original report.
She had difficulty, for example, in pouring tea or coffee into a cup because the fluid appeared to be frozen, like a glacier. In addition, she could not stop pouring at the right time since she was unable to perceive the movement in the cup (or a pot) when the fluid rose. . . . . In a room where more than two other people were walking she felt insecure and unwell, and usually left the room immediately, because "people were suddenly here and or there but I have not seen them moving." . . . . She could not cross the street because of her inability to judge the speed of a car, but she could identify the car itself without difficulty. . . . .
L.M. could infer that objects moved by comparing their relative position in time, but she never saw motion. Nevertheless, she has normal color and form perception, spatial acuity, and can detect flickering lights. It was as if she lived in a world illuminated by a stroboscopic lamp, not unlike a disco . . . or like watching a greatly slowed-down movie, in which the individual frames are visible . . . .")
Bob D.
Omega - 13. Aug, 08:33
