Scientists have discovered a new type of sinestezii

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology, described a new species sinestezii. Accidentally discovered their owners sinesteticheskih skills hear noises at the sight of moving objects and images. Synesthesia - a property of perception, is the fact that the stimulation of a sensory organ automatically causes sensations such other purposes. The most striking example of synesthesia - the so-called "colored hearing" when certain sounds are perceived as having different colors. Connected with other known varieties of synesthesia colors, sounds, tastes and tactile sensations with graphic signs, geometric figures and words. A new type of synesthesia was accidentally found a specialist in neuro-computer science Caltech Sents Melissa (Melissa Saenz). One of her students saw rapidly changing size of dots on a computer screen saver and asked the others if. The same thing that he heard As it turned out, accompanied by the movement of the dots on the screen of a young man for a distinctive sound. In another interview, he admitted that he sees moving objects by listening for their whole lives and do not see anything strange. After studying the history of the problem, could Sents and her colleagues do not find a description of such forms of synesthesia in the scientific literature. However, tests with the same screen saver several hundred volunteers, they found three other people with similar synesthetic abilities. All three were very surprised to learn, perceive the world differently than most people. Obviously, a new type of synesthesia has no significant effect on the quality of life. "Your life is accompanied by an expanded soundtrack, but it can not be called a very different perception" - believes Sents. According to scientists, the auditory synesthesia - a very common phenomenon: Is it possible that in some degree occurs in one person out of a hundred. In some cases, can hear synaesthetic abilities be useful. Individuals they have better than normal people with the tests done for attention, in which they were asked about the number of different points on the screen, identify the distinction based on the principle of the Morse code, but not beep. Report on a new form of synesthesia in the journal Current Biology published.