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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Synaesthesia involves unusual sensory experiences triggered by unrelated stimuli.
  • Existing research on synaesthetic perception often focuses narrowly on color associations.
  • There is a gap in understanding how technology can model synaesthetic experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) for recreating synaesthetic perceptions.
  • To explore if VR can capture richer sensory details than traditional methods.
  • To examine audiovisual synaesthetic associations within a VR environment.

Main Methods:

  • Multiple case study design with six participants experiencing synaesthesia.
  • Experiment 1: Grapheme-color association via color-picker and VR-by-proxy recreation.
  • Experiment 2: Participants recreated audiovisual synaesthetic associations in VR.

Main Results:

  • VR successfully captured synaesthetic elements like texture, movement, and 3D structure.
  • VR-by-proxy approach revealed nuances missed by traditional color-picking.
  • Participants actively recreated their synaesthetic experiences in the VR environment.

Conclusions:

  • Virtual Reality offers a powerful tool for modeling and understanding synaesthesia.
  • VR technology can provide a more comprehensive representation of synaesthetic perception.
  • The methodology shows potential for studying other forms of perceptual diversity.