共感觉帮助我找到四叶草。

共感觉帮助我找到四叶草。
Synesthesia helps me find four-leaf clovers (2023)

原始链接: https://matthewjamestaylor.com/synesthesia-four-leaf-clovers

马修·泰勒将他惊人的发现四叶、五叶甚至六叶草的能力归功于他的联觉。与大多数人只看到一片均匀的绿色不同，他的大脑能感知形状的变化——特别是叶片数量多于三叶草的特殊形态——这对他来说是一种明显的“运动”，立刻吸引了他的目光。他将这种感觉比作具有字形-颜色联觉的联觉者，他们可能会将这些变化看作不同的*颜色*，从而使其突出。泰勒在观察草叶时没有颜色体验，但这种差异感同样有效。他甚至通过拍摄草叶照片并挑战他人寻找稀有变种来记录这一现象，证明了联觉者更容易发现它们。他俏皮地质疑这种寻找草叶的能力是否带来好运，并将答案留给想象。

这个黑客新闻的讨论围绕着一篇博客文章，讲述了联觉如何帮助作者轻松找到四叶草。作者将四叶草感知为具有运动感的独特形状，类似于他们体验数字和字母时看到的颜色。一位*没有*联觉的评论者发现作者的“5与2”图表出人意料地有冲击力。他们感知到2的数字具有运动感，类似于天鹅，尽管他们看到的只是黑色的数字。然而，这种效果并没有转化为实际的四叶草照片，使得找到四叶草仍然很困难。该评论者还分享了一篇他们自己的文章链接，探讨了数字、颜色和声音之间强烈且后天习得的关联——他们认为这种现象源于早期接触CGA颜色和记忆术，即使没有联觉。这突显了即使没有神经系统疾病，大脑也可以创建类似的关联。

Matthew James Taylor

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17 Jan 2023

I find four-leaf clovers quite a lot.

I have several hundred of them. I even have a few five-leaf clovers and a couple of sixers!

I have them pressed in books and tucked away in various places around the house.

Why do I find so many, I hear you ask?

Well, I have a theory about this...

Normally when I spot a four or five-leaf clover it's not that I'm searching for them. They just jump out at me - almost like I catch them move as I walk by. My eye is drawn right to its exact spot in the clover patch.

I'm sure my synesthesia is at work here. (Read my synesthesia story)

When I glance across a clover patch, any clover that doesn't have three leaves is a different shape. My brain notices this difference and it immediately stands out from the others.

This is nicely illustrated by this Wikipedia diagram:

Left is how a normal person sees the shapes. Right is how synesthetes may see the shapes, notice how the reversed shapes are obvious due to their different color.

For me, four-leaf clovers are a different shape so they stand out in a clover patch very much like this. Unlike letters and numbers, however, I don't get a sense of color, it's more like a sense of movement.

So they do jump out at me!

It's common for synesthetes with grapheme-color synesthesia to find 4-leaf clovers more easily. The cross-wiring of senses in a synesthete brain causes 4-leaf shapes to appear a different color to the 3-leaf variety, so they stand out. Ordinary people only see a patch of homogeneous green leaves.

Amber, aka The Woodland Elf is another artist with synesthesia who finds four-leaf clovers.

Do you have synesthesia? Do you find four-leaf clovers? Let me know.

Let's play a little synesthesia game! ;)

I started taking pictures of four-leaf clovers before I picked them (or instead of picking them) just to see if other people could spot them as easily as I.

Give it a try.

How many four-leaf clovers can you see in the following photos?