Associating colours with letters (in the mind): what is that disease or syndrome called?
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It's called synesthesia- Stimulation of one sense produces the sensation of another.\n\nI hadn't heard of colors=numbers, only music sparking color.\nOr colors =taste.  Very interesting.\n\nI remember hearing about this woman who sees colors when she plays music.  I'm guessing this is related. (see attached article- the very last one)
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This depends on the student. Some are visual learners and they remember things best if presented visually in the form of pictures/photos/diagrams/movies. These students appreciate color as it helps fill in the details. \n\nA more hands on learner would do best with a black an white image, as they categorize in their mind based on simplicity and would remember best with that.\n\nCognition and memory are not fully understood aspects of the mind. How someone remembers is variable between each individual as well as the person's mood at the time it was presented.
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Everyone sees everything a little differently than others.  As for colours, it's how your eyes may process light and how your brain may interpret that light.  \n\nIf you're seeing blue while I see red or vise-versa, there's a big problem because those two colors are opposites (actually red and cyan, which is kinda blue).
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Brain and hair color are little different things, no?
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Dell Logic Puzzles; keeping the brain "active" in the early [and all] stages has been shown in studies to deter the onset and alleviate the process; I believe that involving BOTH sides of brain, left and right, such as visual puzzles involving "logic" and calculating strategy, are excellent, good music, and "active conversation"; also, as much "joy" as possible- pets, family, friends, new and long-time ones, all have shown great help!
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Alphabetic Collocation Reducing Or Numbing Your Memory\nAlphanumeric Code for Remembering Odd Names You Make up\nA Crazy Reminder Of Names You Misplaced
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Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae) -- from the Greek syn- meaning union and aesthesis meaning sensation -- is a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. In a form of synesthesia known as grapheme → color synesthesia, letters or numbers may be perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities.\n\nIt takes several forms\n\n\nGrapheme → color synesthesia\nMusic → color synesthesia\nNumber form synesthesia\nPersonification\nLexical → gustatory synesthesia\n\nread more --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia
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Different level of mental states.
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cognitive disorder are conditions that cause difficulty and problems with memory,reasoning,judgment,perception
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Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, in humans is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals. The English chemist John Dalton in 1794 published the first scientific paper on the subject, "Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours", after the realization of his own color blindness; because of Dalton's work, the condition is sometimes called Daltonism, although this term is now used for a type of color blindness called deuteranopia (see below).\n\nColor blindness is usually classed as a disability; however, in select situations color blind people have advantages over people with normal color vision. Color blind hunters are better at picking out prey against a confusing background, and the military have found that color blind soldiers can sometimes see through camouflage that fools everyone else. Monochromats may have a minor advantage in dark vision, but only in the first five minutes of dark adaptation.
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http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?nameMitchS
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I remember reading a whole excerpt like that in psychology you are right the brain can assemble letters in that we only need the first and last letter to understand the word, it's so neat!
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This is partially true, partially false.\n\nWith regards to purple, most people would agree that purple light is always some mixture of reddish and bluish light.   I.e. you can imagine two knobs, one raising and lowering the red and the other raising and lowering the blue, and you can get many shades of purple.  There may be other hues added in as well, but there is *always* red and blue (if not, we rarely call it purple).\n\nIn other words, if we didn't have the word "purple" in our language, we would probably call it something like "reddish blue" or "bluish red".\n\nBut we cannot do the same with red and green.   We have a very hard time imagining, or pointing to, a color that is "reddish green".  If given only a red and a green knob, the result will be make the color more or less neutral (gray or white).\n\nLikewise with blue and yellow.  (Some people will respond that green is bluish yellow, but that's because many people are used to mixing pigments on paper ... we're talking about mixing lights.)\n\nThese two pairs,  red-green and blue-yellow, are *fundamental* pairs.  We call them "oppositional".  (There is also a third opponent pair ... light-dark ... but as we're just talking about color here, we can ignore that one for the moment.)  This is called the "opponent theory" of color vision and is associated with Ewald Hering.\n\nSo in that sense we can call these four colors "fundamental" hues"  because all color we see can be mixed using knobs of these four colors.\n\nPeople will also wonder about the red-green-blue primaries, and the fact that we know we have red, green, blue photoreceptors in our eyes.  These would also seem to be fundamental hues (as evidenced by the computer monitor on which you are reading these words ... that monitor is able to simulate a wide range of colors using just red, green, and blue).\n\nThese two theories ... the "opponent theory" and the "trichromatic theory" competed for a long time until we found a way to reconcile them.  Basically, we have three types of photoreceptors, but they are wired in a way in our retina, that by the time signals are travelling down our optic nerve, the red-green are antagonistic signals as are yellow-blue.
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this experiment is when there are columns with colors written out in the coordinating color and another column with names of colors writen in different ink\nthe stroop interference effect shows that names of colors written in the same ink is easier to read than names of colors written in different ink\n\nfor example:\nred written in red ink is easier to read than\nred written in green ink\n\nhope that helps!
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Yes, this is very interesting. This was discovered at Cambridge University, it is because the human mind reads each word as a whole, instead of each individual letter. That is why we can still read it. Neat huh?
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Yes, I often call yellow "pink", even though I can see yellow and pink as two completely different colours and I know which is which. My mum says I've always done it, since I first learnt the names of the colours.
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Yes - it's connected to the same part of your mind that associates visual cues with responses.  Similar to when you see someone crying, and you suddenly become sad.  Similar association.