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...David Anaki; Avishai Henik Most studies of synesthesia have documented its unidirectional nature. For example, in grapheme-color synesthesia, a digit (e.g., 5) triggers a color (e.g., yellow) but not vice versa. This has led many to believe synesthesia is unidirectional. However, research has...

... of the phonological signifier. It is argued, by analogy with synesthesia, that stable characteristic visual shapes obstruct smooth perceptual fusion, and, on the basis of speech perception, that speech sounds are special in our cognitive economy, and visual patterning cannot achieve the naturalness...

... freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. interaction theory gestalt blending tension cognition References Anaki David Henik Avishai 2016 “Bidirectionality in Synesthesia and Metaphor.” Special issue , Poetics Today...

... of over 240 publications. Henik works in the general area of cognitive neuroscience, more specifically, in the areas of attention, cognitive control, numerical cognition, and synesthesia. His research has been support- ed by various granting agencies, among them the Israel Science Foundation (ISF...

... the Brain of Synesthesia . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . del Rio Elena . 2008 . Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press . Djonov Emilia Leeuwen Theo van . 2011 . “ The Semiotics of Texture: From Tactile to Visual...

..., Bertolt Brecht, the detective genre, narratology and stylistics, image-text relations, the human experience of time, theater and performance, and perception and synesthesia. She has published over fifty articles and a number of edited and authored volumes. The most recent are Herausforderung der...

... . Anaki David Henik Avishai 2017 “ Bidirectionality in Synesthesia and Metaphor ,” Poetics Today 38 : 141 – 61 . Bakhtin Mikhail M. 1986 Speech Genres and Other Essays . Translated by McGee Vern W. ( Austin : University of Texas Press ). Black...

... Delbo’s ambition was to shape a language of fatal sensation, a synesthesia of atrocity which would lure her readers into the world of threatened annihilation and make them feel, and thus to begin to see, to cite our initial witness, ‘‘what Auschwitz really was It was an effective strategy...

... “derive[s] its intelligibility from the interplay between two semes, one literal and one figurative, of the polysemic word ‘sharp’ ” (214). Simile often draws in a range of rhetorical figures other than metaphor (personification, synesthesia, metonymy), and hence we should pay attention to the “functional...

... interpreted the Acid Test scene as a form of modern-day sha- manism (Gans Owsley’s approach to the synesthesia engendered by psychedelics is a testimony not only to the power of LSD to alter one’s perception, but also to the power...

... revealed in composite images such as the synesthesia of the final line, in which the future aged interlocutor will “see” his blood “warm” by seeing his progeny, as well as in the attempt to discern beauty in the “deep-sunken eyes” of the middle-aged face (2.7).30 While there is instability...

... than a dual aptitude for poetry and painting (like that of William Blake), music and painting (like that of Arnold Schoen- berg), or music and poetry (like, more recently, that of Kurt Schwitters). This unique combination is synesthesia. In correspondence with some painters who claim to be putting...