Chromesthesia

A keyboard depicting note-color associations. The colors are experienced with the sounding of the note, and are not necessarily localized to piano keys.

Chromesthesia or sound-to-color synesthesia is a type of synesthesia in which sound involuntarily evokes an experience of color, shape, and movement.[1][2] Individuals with sound-color synesthesia are consciously aware of their synesthetic color associations/perceptions in daily life.[3] Synesthetes that perceive color while listening to music experience the colors in addition to the normal auditory sensations. The synesthetic color experience supplements, but does not obscure real, modality-specific perceptions.[3] As with other forms of synesthesia, individuals with sound-color synesthesia perceive it spontaneously, without effort, and as their normal realm of experience.[3] Chromesthesia can be induced by different auditory experiences, such as music, phonemes, speech, and/or everyday sounds.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cytowic RE (2018). Synesthesia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-53509-0.
  2. ^ Cytowic RE, Eagleman DM (2009). Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (with an afterword by Dmitri Nabokov). Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-262-01279-9.
  3. ^ a b c Simner J (February 2012). "Defining synaesthesia" (PDF). British Journal of Psychology. 103 (1). London, England: 1–15. doi:10.1348/000712610X528305. PMID 22229768. S2CID 9038571.