psychopathology: synesthesia

Usually used in the plural, synesthesias refers to the experience of sensation in a secondary sensory modality that is triggered by a stimulus in the primary modality. For example, seeing the color red might produce a smell of cinnamon. These are further named by the secondary modality as phonisms, photisms, olfactisms, gustatisms, etc.

Also: synaesthesia, synesthetic

• Dann, Kevin T. Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge (Hardcover - October 1998)
• Harrison, John Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing (Hardcover - June 2001)
• Harrison, John Synaesthesia: Classic and Contemporary Readings Hardcover | Paperback (December 1996)
• Mass, Wendy A Mango-Shaped Space Paperback 2005
• The Soloist DVD Robert Downey, Jr., Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener, and Stephen Root
   

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