Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain.
Conscious Cogn. 2012 Mar;21(1):258-68. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.11.010. Epub 2011 Dec 23.
In a variety of synaesthesia, photisms result from affect-laden stimuli as emotional words, or faces of familiar people. For R, who participated in this study, the sight of a familiar person triggers a mental image of "a human silhouette filled with colour". Subjective descriptions of synaesthetic experiences induced by the visual perception of people's figures and faces show similarities with the reports of those who claim to possess the ability to see the aura. It has been proposed that the purported auric perception may be easily explained by the presence of a specific subtype of cross-modal perception. We analyse the subjective reports of four synaesthetes who experience colours in response to human faces and figures. These reports are compared with descriptions of alleged auric phenomena found in the literature and with claims made by experts in esoteric spheres. The discrepancies found suggest that both phenomena are phenomenologically and behaviourally dissimilar.
在各种联觉中，情感词或熟悉的人的面孔等带有情感的刺激会产生幻觉。对于参与这项研究的 R 来说，看到一个熟悉的人会触发一个“充满色彩的人形轮廓”的心理图像。通过视觉感知人物和面孔引起的联觉体验的主观描述与那些声称能够看到光环的人的报告相似。有人提出，所谓的光环感知可能很容易通过特定的跨模态感知亚型的存在来解释。我们分析了四位对人脸和人形产生颜色反应的联觉者的主观报告。这些报告与文献中发现的所谓光环现象的描述以及神秘领域专家的说法进行了比较。发现的差异表明，这两种现象在现象学和行为上是不同的。
