Symmetric and Structural Cross-Modal Mapping between Musics and Colors and its Application to Media Designs

联觉是一种神经状态，其中对一条感觉或认知路径的刺激包括第二条感觉或认知路径的自动和非自愿反应。报告这种经历的人被称为“通灵者”。联结者的一个子集，声音-颜色联结者与音乐和其他声音相关联地“看到”颜色和简单的动画形状。我们可以从两千到三千个人中找到一个彩色声音合成器。有人提出“……每个婴儿都是联觉的，尽管大多数婴儿逐渐失去了联觉”(Stein和Meredith 1993)，而联结者甚至在他们长大后也拥有这些跨模式的联系。我们科学地展示了如何在动画和电影中使用这些通感跨模式映射。

Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway includes automatic and involuntary responses in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report such experiences are known as "synesthetes". A subset of synesthetes, sound-color synesthetes "see" colors and simple animated shapes in association with music and other sounds. We can find a color-sound synesthetes out of two to three thousands. It has been suggested that "...every infant is synesthetic, although most gradually grow out of it" p 12 (Stein and Meredith 1993) and the synesthetes possess these cross-modal connections even they grown up. We show scientifically how these synesthetic cross-modal mapping are used in animations and movies.