20.08.2013 |
magazine issue | 10/2007
written by Clare Jonas
There’s Something About Zero
keywords:
color / neuroscience / perception / sensation / synaesthesia
There’s Something About Zero
For some people, looking at one or more of the numbers in the image will be an aesthetically unpleasant experience. “But zero is black!” they will think to themselves. Those with black (or red, or upper left, or shy, or any other type of additional sensation) zeroes are synaesthetes – for them, the perception of a stimulus (the inducer) in one sense will activate a ... / more