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contemplativeIf so, how would praise taste?
http://sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/story/scien
This link talks about a lady who could taste music. Interesting cross-over of sensory info.
Perhaps this sort of linkage gives us a hint at the wholistic approach we should have in our worship of the Lord: A sweet smelling aroma!!
If this is true, then our whole lives should be in pursuit of harmony with the Lord that others may sense His presence in our lives. How do we enter His presence? With thanksgiving in our heart & with praise!
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http://sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/story/scien
Musician tastes richness of symphony
Last Updated Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:04:26 EST
CBC News
LONDON - A musician who sees colour when she hears music can also "taste" the flavours of tones such as a creamy harmony by Bach, scientists say.
Swiss neuropsychologists recruited Elizabeth Sulston, a 27-year-old professional musician, for a year-long study.
The subject found an octave has no taste. Sulston, who has an average IQ, is a synaesthete – someone who involuntarily experiences a crossover of senses from stimuli.
In this case, she sees colour when she hears a tone. To Sulston, an F sharp looks violet and a C is red.
What makes Sulston's case remarkable is she also perceives a taste corresponding to what she hears.
In Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, researchers said this is the first known case of such a combined perception.
Lutz Jaencke of the University of Zurich and his colleagues tested her gift at identifying tone intervals, the difference between two notes.
In the first part of the experiment, researchers applied different solutions tasting sour, bitter, salty and sweet to her tongue while four musical intervals were presented.
Then the test was repeated, except that words describing the tastes, rather than the tastes themselves, were shown to Sulston before the tone intervals were played.
To Sulston, a minor second is sour, a major third sweet, a fourth tastes like mown grass and a minor sixth like cream.
"Whenever she hears a specific musical interval, she automatically experiences a taste on her tongue that is consistently linked to that particular interval," the scientists wrote in the journal.
She responded with perfect accuracy, and more quickly than five other musician controls who don't have synaesthesia.
Sulston's "application of her synaesthetic sensations in identifying tone intervals – a complex task that requires formal musical training – demonstrates that synaesthesias may be used to solve cognitive problems," they concluded.
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