pseudochromesthesiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pseudo-chromesthesia (plural pseudo-chromesthesias)

1. (rare, obsolete, neurology, psychology) A type of synesthesia when sounds trigger involuntary, subjective sensations of color; during which a person might see colors when they hear music, specific pitches, words, or everyday noises (e.g. a "blue" sound or a "red" voice); a mental association rather than a true, external visual perception.
   • 1893, Calkins, Mary Whiton, A Statistical Study of Pseudo-Chromesthesia and of Mental-Forms,  The American Journal of Psychology:

     The helpfulness of pseudo-chromesthesia is less obvious, yet it is reported in about one-fourth our cases. ' ' Colors do not look right," one subject writes, " unless a word is spelled right. For instance, I spelled permanent, the other day, with two a’s, and it did not look pale enough." Another is helped in writing rhymes, and a third in committing music to memory.

   • 1897, Wake, C. Staniland, “Musical Tone and Color”, in Music A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music · Volume 11‎:

     In The American Journal of Psychology for October, 1892, Dr. William O. Krohn treats of the curious phenomena of pseudo-chromesthesia, in which sound gives rise to colo sensation, and he explains it by the nearness of the auditory and visual centers in the brain cortex.

派生語

• synaesthesia

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