[accessibleimage] Synaesthesia and description and onomatopoeia question

Hi,

I really enjoyed listening to Prof. Ramachandran's lectures. Thank you for the link.

His examples about Kiki and Boba got me to thinking - that is when making descriptions for images, movies etc
would it follow from what Prof. Ramachandran says about synaesthesia, neuron cobbling,  that when making a verbal description
for an image it is perhaps a good idea to be concious of this connection about the synaesthesia between work and shapes etc
so that the description activates also the visual form  part of the brain (or other)?      Sort of a synaesthesia type of description ?  Is this aslo what onomatopoeia is ? - from Wikipedia
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In many of the world's languages, onomatopoeia-like words are used to describe phenomena apart from the purely auditive. Japanese often utilizes such words to describe feelings or figurative expressions about objects or concepts. For instance, Japanese barabara is used to reflect an object's state of disarray or separation, and shiiin is the onomatopoetic form of absolute silence (used at the time an English speaker might expect to hear the sound of crickets chirping or a pin dropping in a silent room). It is used in English as well with terms like bling, which describes the shine on things like gold, chrome or precious stones.



Any one know?

Thanks,

Lisa





accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx skrev 6. mai 2008 kl. 14:43 +0000:
I'd like to add that if teachers have open enough minds, they may appreciate
the insights of Prof. Ramachandran in the BBC Reith Lecture series from
2003, "The Emerging Mind".


In particular Lecture 3, "The Artful Brain", on the question of 'What is
art?' and Lecture 4, "Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese", on synaesthesia. You
can still hear the audio of these.



Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter
Oslo Norway

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