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Synesthesia: A Colorful Word With A Touching Sound?, Myrto I. Mylopoulos, Tony Ro
Synesthesia: A Colorful Word With A Touching Sound?, Myrto I. Mylopoulos, Tony Ro
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Synesthesia is a fairly common condition in which individuals experience atypical responses (such as color experiences) in association with certain types of stimuli (such as non-colored letters). Although synesthesia has been described for centuries, only very recently has there been an explosive growth of systematic scientific examinations of this condition. In this article, we review and critically evaluate current methods for both assessing synesthesia and examining its psychological basis, including the “test-retest” procedure, online battery assessments, and behavioral experiments. We highlight the limitations of these methods for understanding the nature of this complex condition and propose potential solutions to address …
Montage And Memory: Articulations Of Literary Modernism In Alain Resnais’ Early Films, Ria Banerjee
Montage And Memory: Articulations Of Literary Modernism In Alain Resnais’ Early Films, Ria Banerjee
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The fascination that literary modernism has with thingness, that essential static being of inanimate objects, has been the subject of much critical attention. This paper seeks to add to that body of criticism by looking at Alain Resnais’ films, specifically referring to Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel as examples of cinematic modernism which further complicate modernism’s obsessive re-configuration of the status of things in relation to the human lives that exist among them. By the turn of the twentieth century, a concern with the limits of human perception of the world was at the fore. Buffeted …