It has been used as a literary device by writers as diverse as Poe, Rimbaud, Hart Crane, and Dame Edith Sitwell. An involuntary neurobehavioral phenomenon, it consists of photisms which result from tactile or oral stimuli such as taste or pain cause sensations of seeing colors. Identify this phenomenon, whose name comes from the Greek for "perceiving together," and, _FOR TEN POINTS_, whose most common variant is "colored hearing."
It has been used as a literary device by writers as diverse as Poe, Rimbaud, Hart Crane, and Dame Edith Sitwell. An involuntary neurobehavioral phenomenon, it consists of photisms which result from tactile or oral stimuli such as taste or pain cause sensations of seeing colors. Identify this phenomenon, whose name comes from the Greek for "perceiving together," and, _FOR TEN POINTS_, whose most common variant is "colored hearing."
It has been used as a literary device by writers as diverse as Poe, Rimbaud, Hart Crane, and Dame Edith Sitwell.
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