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WASHINGTON (AP) — For one mid
dle-aged man, “two” looks blue, but ”2”
is orange. And while “3” appears pink,
"5” is green.
The man has synesthesia — a phenom
enon in which printed words and numbers
burst with color, flavors take on shapes
and the spoken language turns into a men
tal rainbow.
For some people with synesthesia, say
researchers, a newspaper is never black
and white — it is reel, orange, blue, beige,
pink and green all over.
“This is an alternate perception,” said
Thomas J. Palmeri, a Vanderbilt
University psychologist and the first
author of a study reporting on the tests
given to one man. ‘*He is normal — a
highly successful, intelligent man and he
suffers no problems from this unique
wiring of the brain.”
The study, appearing Tuesday in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, explores multi-chromatic world
ofaman identified only as W.O. The man,
a university professor of medicine, did not
respond to requests for a direct interview.
Palmeri said researchers are starting to
realize that W.O. is just one of a large
people with synesthesia, many
ilce joy in this rich symphony of
number of
of whom tal
sensations.
“They often experience a great deal of
pleasure from this altered perception,”
said Edward M. Hubbard, a synesthesia
researcher at the University of California,
San Diego.
For W.O., his synesthesia helped make
learning the complex words of science
easy — when the colors were not distract
ing him from study, Palmeri said.
“He sees a palette of different colors
when he reads and sometimes he is more
interested in how pretty the page looks
than what the words say,” he said.
In the Proceedings study, Palmeri,
Randolph Blake and other Vanderbilt
researchers put W.O. through a series of
tests.
Palmeri said that W.O. sees all printed
words in colors, sometimes letter-by-letter
and sometimes syllable-by-syllable. Short
words have a single color while long
words may have many. When W.O. was
given a list of 100 words printed in black
and white, he said each one had a specific
color. When the list was presented a sec
ond time, weeks later, W.O. gave most
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The device, Medtronic’s
InSync pacemaker, has been
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people in the United States
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It is intended for people
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heart failure patients whose
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The latest data on the pace
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hears words and numerals in color even if they’re in black and
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lafler number 2s, W,Q. saw the whole
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of small 2s, they see the 5 as
green until they realize it is
made of 2s, at which point it
appears qrange.
SOURCE: Department of Psychology. Vanderbilt University AP
And the hues prompted when W.O.
hears words are generally the same as
those he sees when the words are printed,
Palmeri said.
Hubbard said the experiments with
W.O. match some performed in his lab
that show synesthesians see colors when
others see only black and white.
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that made up the image
numerals were orange.
When the numbers were written out —
such as two — they assumed another color.
eared green,
the small 2s
each of those
Doctors helping solve heart artery problems
ATLANTA (AP) — Doctors
believe they have solved one of
the most frustrating problems in
heart care — the stubborn ten
dency of heart arteries to clog
up after angioplasty.
Mew data released Sunday
suggest the approach virtually
eliminates this complication,
which occurs in about one-
quarter of angioplasties — now
done on 1 million Americans
annually.
The approach is the drug-
coated stent, a wire coil engi
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and keep it from refilling with
scar tissue.
“This is a very hot topic,
potentially revolutionary in the
treatment of coronary artery dis
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of Emory University.
During angioplasty, doctors
fish tiny balloons through
clogged heart arteries, then
inflate them briefly to open up
blood flow. The tendency of the
freshly opened artery to close up
again with scar tissue within a
few months has always been its
major drawback.
Doctors have tried a variety
of gadgets, such as lasers and
whirring knives, to prevent this
complication, called restenosis.
The introduction of ordinary
stents a few years ago was a big
improvement, reducing the fail
ure rate from around 40 percent
to about 25 percent.
However, the latest advance
has the potential of eliminating
it almost completely. The first
hint of this was made public last
September at a European heart
conference, and more data were
released Sunday at a meeting of
the American College of
Cardiology in Atlanta.
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