Colored numbers and melodies who have a taste: assemble different sensory perceptions It is the result of the synaesthesiaa condition that is believed to hit about 4% of the population and which depends on the‘inability of brain Of eliminate the connections that with the passage of time they have become useless.
“It’s a sensory phenomenonnot cognitive, and a lot common in the artistic field“, Ernesto Carafoli, of the University of Padua and among the organizers of the conference on the synaesthesia in progress at the Academy of Lincei. The conference, he added, is the opportunity to dialogue on this interdisciplinary theme the two classes of the Academy: that of physical sciences and that of humanistic sciences. The SinsteseThat among the artists can reach one diffusion of 30%is one neurological condition note for at least 150 years, in which sensory stimuli of a certain method, For example acoustic or visual they automatically evoke a sensory reaction mode differentfor example gustatory.
“The most accepted hypothesis on the origin of synaesthesia is a deficit in the process of ‘pruning’, that is’pruning‘”; Observes Giacomo Rizzolatti, Linarous and of the University of Parma, referring to the fact that” already in the first year of life there is a huge cut of connections “and that this process continues to adolescence.” Only useful connections remain, but in the synestheta – observes – remain instead also unnecessary connections and apparently useless ”. This condition can become pathological In some cases, such as theautism, there Asperge syndromero la Savant syndrome.
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