Multisensory Integration Quotes

I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense of smell because they don't use it.

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

It's not like I see colours. It's just, for me, an incredibly strong association between music and colour.

Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I associate colors with music, or music with colors.

I have synesthesia, which is when you see music in color.

What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.