ideasthesia
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”) + αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”), modeled after synaesthesia, and introduced by Danko Nikolić in [1].
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Noun
ideasthesia (uncountable)
- (neurology, psychology) A neurological or cognitive phenomenon in which activation of a particular concept triggers a sensory-like experience.
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References
- ^ Nikolić, D. (2009) Is synaesthesia actually ideaesthesia? An inquiry into the nature of the phenomenon. Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Synaesthesia, Science & Art, Granada, Spain, April 26–29, 2009.