[D-multisensory] Meeting of the American Synesthesia Association September 2008

["Daphne Maurer" <maurer@mcmaster.ca>]

We are pleased to announce that the 7th conference of the American 
Synesthesia Association will be held at McMaster University in 
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on September 26-28, 2008, and we hope you 
will join us. The call for papers is on the website with a May 2nd 
deadline: http://www.synesthesia.info/.

We have planned an exciting meeting including an art exhibition 
"Synesthesia: Art and the Mind", a keynote address by Jamie Ward, 
and a music/performance event featuring music by synesthetic 
composers. The exhibition is being curated by Carol Steen and Greta 
Berman.  It will be a  groundbreaking exhibition as it is the first 
ever to show the works of known genuine synesthetic artists in 
context. Several major museums and galleries are loaning works for 
the show which will include paintings and drawings by five known 
synesthetic artists and three who may have been synesthetic.

Many of the scientists working on the neural and perceptual basis of 
synesthesia are planning to attend, as are a number of synesthetes. This
audience will be interested in studies of multisensory perception more
generally
and we suspect that you will find the recent work on the similarity of
synesthetic and typical perception to be informative. We hope that
your will join us.

Daphne Maurer
Carol Steen
Larry Marks
Sean Day


Daphne Maurer, Ph.D.
--
Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada  L8S 4K1
Telephone:  905.525.9140 x 23030
Fax:  905.529.6225
<http://psych.mcmaster.ca/maurerlab/>