Therefore, sniffing increases the number of molecules floating by the detectors, but it does not increase the perceived experience. The object looks bigger, because it.

The most fascinating thing I learned this semester was undeniably about the rare condition of synesthesia. Synesthesia is a condition in which sensory stimulation evokes an experience ordinarily not associated with that stimulation. The form of synesthesia we focused on during color perception, called color or orthographic synesthesia, is the condition in which colors are experienced when viewing black or white letters or numbers.

When trying to decide what I found to be the most interesting part of this class, synesthesia jumped right to mind.

How cool is that? April 20, 2008. This week, we talked about motion and how we perceive motion. We learned about a woman who had a deficiency in this perceiving ability. Because the condition resulted from her stroke, it means that she had normal visual functioning before her strok.