Question

what criteria would you use to determine wheter synesthesia is a disorder or a variation of normal sensation and perception?

Answer 1

The synesthesia is not a disease or disorder and it is is often refer to as being a condition, because it doesn’t interfere with normal daily life activities. It is a condition in which a sensory stimulus is presented to one sense (i.e., hearing a word) and a secondary sense is activated (i.e., you see a color when you hear the word).Those with the condition are called synesthetes. I believe synesthesia is a variation of normal sensation and perceptions.

Visual testing:

In this case the patient without it sees the picture just as is the one on the left, with it they see specific colors for the patterns they associate with letters or numbers.

Auditory testing:

if they have they will experience colors or tastes with sounds.Test-retest this is the time where they are given objects to assign colors to and they will be able to do it again with little trouble if they have it. Stroop effect- this is a psychological test