[accessibleimage] Visual synaesthesia in the blind , conference IMRF 2005

Hi,
I was listening to the radio program about Magna Jenssen, a blind artist 
who feels colors and I wanted to learn more about it.
I started to find articles about synthenesia and thought this article 
could be of interest
Visual synaesthesia in the blind in Perception 2004
http://matrix.aklab.psych.ubc.ca/uploads/Tessa_SynaesthesiaBlindPeople_P.pdf

I have/had a bit of difficulty understanding but I though this 
definition was helpful taken from a radio program, and this combined 
with cross modality
"...So Synaesthesia is caused by the creation of special working 
connections between areas of the brain which are normally quite separate."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/derek_trans.shtml
Megan Steven author of the above article is interviewed as well as John 
Fullwood who is blind

That is if I understand correctly since there is cross modality, and 
isn't this synaestheia?  hearing colors, then  feeling colors isn't such 
a strange idea.

Also right now there is a conference for, IMRF 2005, (International 
Multisensory Research Forum) going on that maybe some of you are at in 
Rovereto,Italy that sounds very interesting
http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/~IMRF/2005/pdf/IMRF2005_Abstracts.pdf

And then there is the article by Abraham Nemeth, Ph. D I can Reel Blue 
on Monday.
http://www.nfb.org/books/kernel1/kernbk19.htm#2
Not exactly the opposite, but a nice story (well not nice for him at the 
time)

So if I am mixing things up that cross modality and synthenesia are sort 
of connected, please correct. And hope this is not too off subject.

Thanks,
Lisa

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