{"id":1957,"date":"2004-10-02T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/10\/02\/\/"},"modified":"2004-10-02T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2004-10-03T01:11:10","slug":"1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/1957\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/nose.jpg\" alt=\"sense of smell and sight\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sn\/tvradio\/programmes\/horizon\/derek_prog_summary.shtml\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Derek Tastes of Earwax<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time James Wannerton sees Derek he experiences a strong taste of earwax. James runs a pub and Derek is one of his regulars. Another regular&#8217;s name gives him the taste of wet nappies. For some puzzling reason, James&#8217; sense of sound and taste are intermingled.<\/p>\n<p>John sees words as colours &#8211; even though he is blind. Both men have a mysterious condition called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/catalyst\/stories\/s528838.htm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>synaesthesia<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; in which their senses have become linked.<\/p>\n<p>For years scientists dismissed it, putting it in the same category as seances and spoon-bending. But now, synaesthesia is sparking a revolution in our understanding of the human mind. For it seems that we are all synaesthetic to some degree. Some now believe that it might even explain how we evolved two of the traits that define our species and have transformed our world &#8211; creativity and language.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sn\/tvradio\/programmes\/horizon\/derek_prog_summary.shtml\" rel=\"external\">Take part in an experiment<\/a> to test whether your senses overlap.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synaesthesia Links:<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk\/jamie.ward\/synaesthesia.htm\" rel=\"external\">Synaesthesia Research Group at University College London<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syn.ucl.ac.uk\/\" rel=\"external\">UK Synaesthesia Association<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Tastes of Earwax &#8220;Every time James Wannerton sees Derek he experiences a strong taste of earwax. James runs a pub and Derek is one of his regulars. Another regular&#8217;s name gives him the taste of wet nappies. For some puzzling reason, James&#8217; sense of sound and taste are intermingled. John sees words as colours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}