Hi everyone!
Here's a video about the senses, and about a condition called synesthesia in which certain senses which are not normally connected are very much related: for example, some people see sounds or taste letters. Synesthesia is also a literary device whereby we associate different senses together, like when we speak about "the caress of your voice", for example.
So here's a little video briefly describing this condition. Some previous vocabulary and some questions:
Vocabulary:
the culprit
sensory (adj)
tangle up
shut down
to keep sth in check
Questions:
- Which senses are mentioned throughout the video?
- What is sequence synesthesia?
- What is a possible explanation for seeing A as red?
- What do we mean by the association of senses being durable? And memorable?
- Why was the host reticent to do an episode on this topic?
My ongoing battle with difficult verb patterns for Spanish speakers, like suggest, leads me to asking you to find the use of that verb at the end of the video and transcribe the full sentence. Ideas in the comment section! Thank you!
By the way, you can use closed captions for the key in this one. Enjoy!
Here's a video about the senses, and about a condition called synesthesia in which certain senses which are not normally connected are very much related: for example, some people see sounds or taste letters. Synesthesia is also a literary device whereby we associate different senses together, like when we speak about "the caress of your voice", for example.
So here's a little video briefly describing this condition. Some previous vocabulary and some questions:
Vocabulary:
the culprit
sensory (adj)
tangle up
shut down
to keep sth in check
Questions:
- Which senses are mentioned throughout the video?
- What is sequence synesthesia?
- What is a possible explanation for seeing A as red?
- What do we mean by the association of senses being durable? And memorable?
- Why was the host reticent to do an episode on this topic?
My ongoing battle with difficult verb patterns for Spanish speakers, like suggest, leads me to asking you to find the use of that verb at the end of the video and transcribe the full sentence. Ideas in the comment section! Thank you!
By the way, you can use closed captions for the key in this one. Enjoy!
1. He mentioned verbs of perception: see and taste, but not a single sense.
ReplyDelete2. It is a region of DNA on chromosome 16. The most common form is "colored Sequence Synesthesia"
3. It is that that person might have had a red A magnet on the refrigerator when they were a little kid, so they think of A as being red.
4. It means that the associations are always the same.
It is memorable because the secondary perception would be more memorable than the primary was. The synesthetes always associate Dave with the color purple, and they usually remember the purple first, which tells them that is Dave.
5. The sentence with the pattern of "suggest" is:
I'm thanking everyone that suggested that we do this episode on synesthesia. The reason why I didn't want to have to say synesthesia 25 times in one episode. ….Although he thought that he did a good job.
This sentence includes the answer to the last question too.
Ps: there is another sentence with suggest: "the most studies suggest that there is sth funny going on with the synesthete's brains…."
Best!
- Which senses are mentioned throughout the video? See and hear, in the first example (see the music).
ReplyDelete- What is sequence synesthesia? DNA chromosome 16. The most common form is "colored Sequence Synesthesia".
- What is a possible explanation for seeing A as red? An association (e. g: see an A red magnet in your fridge, then one thinks that every A is red).
- What do we mean by the association of senses being durable? And memorable?
Associations are always the same. The secondary perception is more memorable than the primary.
- Why was the host reticent to do an episode on this topic?
He didn't want to say synesthesia 25 times in one episode.