Psychology – patrick 林香麟

Ideasthesia

An explanation posited by Danko Nikolić, a neuroscientist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, that the experience of synaesthesia (the mixing of sensory inputs, e.g. seeing a colour when hearing a sound) may be mediated semantically. In order words, it is the idea of the input, not the direct experience of the input itselfContinue reading “Ideasthesia”

Linguistic Relativity (aka Sapir-Worf hypothesis)

Basically, this is the idea that the language we speak shapes our thoughts and our perception of the world. Linguistic relativity is actually a rather old concept with a long history harking back to Plato. It makes sense intuitively, that how we would describe something is necessarily linked to what we notice and thus affectingContinue reading “Linguistic Relativity (aka Sapir-Worf hypothesis)”