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Table 3.
Your Response: Synesthetic Abilities
You may want to check your own synesthetic abilities. In many cases synesthesia is genetically inherited and one does not perceive it as
something experienced differently from others; many individuals are unaware of this condition. It may be worth a while to try your own
ability to connect your visual skills with an awareness coming from other senses. For example, you may want to make simple line draw-
ings singing at the same time notes or melodies and imaging tunes that harmonize well with each line you are drawing. Try to sketch your
experiences or write about your connotations.
Spatial cognition is mental reflection and
reconstruction of space in thought, with a distinc-
tion between the perception (what is seen, when
we process sensory information) and cognition
(what is assimilated by a person, based on per-
son's cognitive structures). Spatial cognition and
has been defined by Hart and Moore (1973) as
an internalized reflection and reconstruction of
space in thought. Spatial perception is a form of a
processing of sensory information and immediate
figurative knowing, whereas spatial cognition is
considered operative knowing based on person's
cognitive structures. Information processing in
spatial cognition includes pattern recognition,
that means comparing a stimulus pattern with
memory representation. Pattern is encoded as
the structural schema in both visual (iconic) and
verbal (symbolic) memory codes. Concepts used
in the recognition process consist of structural
description of spatial concepts, the canonical
objects (with assigned descriptions of easily
identified differences in top/bottom, front/back,
and left/right differences) and the non-canonical
objects analysis. Writings on spatial cognition
include several concepts that have been defined
by the researchers.
