Horizon

Horizon never fail to make interesting programmes and thankfully enough, back in March 2006, they filmed a documentary on the disorder (bored of spelling it wrong over and over again). 


I stumbled across this section of their website, and even participated in a scientific experiment. It's safe to say I'm not a Synaesthetes. It was a strange experiment. It involved matching colours to letters, numbers and days of the week, sneakily, all 23 of them were repeated twice to total it up to 46 matching sequences. I also had to find a shape made of 2's from a picture filled with 5's. To cross examine this, this test also came up on http://mindbluff.com/syntest.htm where it said to detract the red from the green, being a red-green colour blind person, this was a no-no! 

Next asked what to assign a name (choice of two - bouba and kiki) to the shapes. 

It's apparent that 73% of people  who took the test on the BBC/Horizon Experiment, all gave the same answer, giving the shape on the left the name of bouba and kiki to the right. Stating the obvious in a way, I think our determination relies on the phonetic sounds. Kiki, has two very harsh and short sounds velar plosive's, so our brain automatically assigns it to the most harsh looking shape where Bouba is a very soft sounding word, so we assign it to the softest looking shape. 

Our Brains work is really strange and mysterious ways, but some more than other obviously for those who pass the test with results being that they are Synaesthetes.

Check out the BBC one 

Do You See What I See?

Do You Hear What I Hear?

The two links lead to to two different tests. Not to state the obvious or anything but one's visual and the other is audible.