brain connections

April 27, 2012

A Simple Mind - The Way Our Brains Are Wired

       The human mind is of course a complex thing, and so when I thought of the brain, I thought of a messy web of connections, something like the tangle of wires behind my Dad’s TV set, times a million.

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April 26, 2010

What does blue taste like? – The blending of senses.

What colour is the letter W? What does yellow taste like? These are not usual questions you hear, however, for some people it is an everyday aspect of their life to deal with. For these individuals their senses are somehow joined together, which is unpronounceable termed as the neurologically-based condition synaesthesia (1). When concerned with this syndrome, “the stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway” (1). For years, synaesthesia was dismissed as the product of someone's overactive imagination. But in the past decade, researchers have documented a numerous amount of cases of otherwise ‘normal people’ – who have these extraordinary blended senses (1).