Karina/brain books synesthesia

12 APR

Zsofi can associate colours to words and sounds
"That's why I was good at learning the piano. I had a connection to the memory. I had a feeling for the colour and how it should be played."

Brain Book about synesthesia.

• Colour palette to show the colours for different words
• Possibly the object could be shown in the felt colour (apple is light light brown / yellowish / greenish)

When interviewing / researching with Zsofi

• Numbers have a clear distant colour (2 is light / bright green)
• Some words are represented by different hues. (Duck is dark green, black)
• Some words are obvious (banana is yellow) but also have a feeling (banana is 'generally a warm feeling')
• Helps if I ask her word for word, not a list and ask which ones are 'orange'
• She finds it difficult to describe colours using words - colour vocabulary is limited. Easier if presented with a pantone palette
• Hesitates sometimes with English words, makes clearer connections in Hungarian