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An exploratory study of syncretic experience: eidetics, synaesthesia and absorption
J Glicksohn1, O Salinger, A Roychman
1Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
Perception
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Synaesthesia and eidetic imagery are both syncretic experiences entailing a dedifferentiation of perceptual qualities. In this paper the correlation between synaesthesia and eidetic imagery is explored. Ten subjects selected for possible eidetic and/or synaesthetic ability were tested in a battery of tasks that tap structural and typographic eidetic imagery, and colour-hearing and colour-mood synaesthesia. It was found that both structural and typographic eidetic imagery were correlated with measures of synaesthesia, indicating a relationship between the two phenomena.