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Tickertape experience is the subjective phenomenon of routinely visualizing the orthographic appearance of words that one hears, speaks, or thinks, like mental subtitles in the mind's eye. It has been observed in grapheme-color synesthetes, whose letter visualizations are colored, but has been very little studied.
- Is Tickertaping rare?
- Do people see words when they think?
- Can some people see words?
- What does it mean to see words?
Is Tickertaping rare?
While strongly automatic tickertaping appeared rare (n = 6; CI95 = 0.6% to 3.2% of sample), lesser degrees of text visualisation were reported by more than half of respondents, indicating a continuity between extreme tickertaping and normal cognition.
Do people see words when they think?
Their research led to insights that people think in either words or images. Our preference indicated a bias in our thinking: left-brain-dominated people tend to think more in words; right-brained people tend to think more in images.
Can some people see words?
What Is Synesthesia? Synesthesia is when you hear music, but you see shapes. Or you hear a word or a name and instantly see a color. Synesthesia is a fancy name for when you experience one of your senses through another.
What does it mean to see words?
A rare condition called synaesthesia means she sees words as graphic pictures. It also means that she has an incredible autobiographical memory which allows her to remember every day with very accurate detail.
