Sensation/Perception:When you think about it the brain is truly a complex magnificent masterpiece that could not have been created by anyone but God himself. The average human brain weighs about three pounds and is fairly small if you think about it, but the power it has can rearrange whole landscapes and turn mountains into open highways, its ability is limitless. The average human has five senses that consist of sight, taste, smell, touch, and hearing. These five senses are all unique in their own way. The process of sensation is occurs when your sense organs are engaged in transduction, the conversion of one form of energy to the other. The brain can not understand what Is happening until that physical energy that you are feeling is converted into electrical stimulation, something the brain can understand. This physiological process of converting physical energy to electrical stimulation causing the brain to makes sense of the stimuli is called perception.
Synesthesia:
From the videos that Dr.Pris gave to use to watch for this blog the one that most caught my attention was the one about Synesthesia. I just find it so interesting that certain people can combine two sense to connect one to the other, for example in the video the guy said that there are some people with synesthesia that when they think of the letter J the think of the color purple or when they think of the color red they automatically relate it to the letter A. The development of how someone aquires Synesthesia has not yet been discovered but it has been suggested that it develops in a person's childhood.
Signs and Symptoms:
It is reported that the people that have synesthesia don't really know they have it until the realize that other people don't have the same experiences as them. Although stereotyped that synesthesia is a medical condition, synesthesians don't believe that and the majority think its pretty cool and unique.
Types Of Synesthesia:
There are two overall types of Synesthesia, projective synesthesia and associative synesthesia.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/synesthesia-hear-colors
https://www.thoughtco.com/synesthesia-definition-and-types-4153376
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3759026/
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