Presentation Schedule

Friday Evening, September 26, 2008

Central Presbyterian Church
165 Charlton Avenue West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 2C8
(Corner of Charlton and Caroline)
Phone (905) 522-9098
Email: central@on.aibn.com

Announcement of concert: http://mimm.mcmaster.ca/concert2.htm Directions: http://www.centralchurchhamilton.on.ca/contactus.htm

8:00 – 10:00 p.m. Music–lecture by Steven Brown and Daphne Maurer:
A Colourful Appetite for Music—How the Brain Connects Music to Colour and Pleasure

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall, McMaster Campus

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Coffee

9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Jamie Ward Keynote Speaker
Synesthesia: Where does it come from, how does it work, and what does it do?

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 – 10:55 a.m. Patricia Duffy
Language in Living Color: Portrayals of synesthete-characters in recent mystery/adventure fiction

10:55 – 11:20 a.m. Sergio Basbaum
Synesthesia and culture: the synesthetic experience and the installation of modernity

11:20 – 11:45 a.m. James Wannerton
Is the Media Giving Out the Right Message?

11:45 – 12:00 p.m. Noon Break

12:00 – 12:25 p.m. Sean Day
A case report of ‘flavor to color’ synesthesia

12:25 – 12:50 p.m. Ferrinne Spector
Making Sense of Scents: The Colour and Texture of Odors

12:50 – 2:20 p.m. Lunch (Contribution for sandwiches, or on your own)

2:20 – 2:45 p.m. Bruno Laeng
A fMRI study of a grapheme-color synaesthete: The larger the color difference between ink and illusory colors, the more the visual areas are engaged

2:45 – 3:10 p.m. Wan-Yu Hung
Colourful characters: composite effects in Chinese synaesthesia

3:10 – 3:35 p.m. Bryan Alvarez
Do grapheme-color synesthetes bind color to a spatial plane?

3:35 – 4:00 p.m. David Brang
400ms in the Life of a Synesthete: From Associative to Synesthetic Contextual Priming

4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Coffee Break

4:15 – 4:40 p.m. Carol Steen
What a Synesthete Sees: or Why Tom Thomson Sends Me Over the Moon

4:40 – 5:05 p.m. Marcia Smilack
What Does A Metaphor Look Like?

5:05 – 5:30 p.m. Patricia Albers
Painting as Cathedral: Synesthesia and the Art of Joan Mitchell

5:30 – 5:55 p.m. Greta Berman
Exploring Synesthetic Commonalities

6:15 – 8:00 p.m. “Synesthesia: Art and the Mind” Exhibition Opening
Held at the McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster Campus

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Reception for Art Exhibition
Held at the Great Hall, McMaster University Club, McMaster Campus

8:00 – p.m. Dinner Banquet
(Separate registration required, Held in the Dining Room, McMaster University Club, McMaster Campus. Cost $62.00

After-dinner entertainment: Original compositions by Sean Day performed by Sean Day on the piano.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall, McMaster Campus

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Coffee

9:00 – 9:25 a.m. David Eagleman
A large-scale analysis of synesthetic correspondences

9:25 – 9:50 a.m. Noam Sagiv
Re-conceptualising synaesthesia: Empirical motivation and theoretical advantages

9:50 – 10:15 a.m. Lindsay Hearne
Unique, Multi-Concurrent Synesthesia: an fMRI Case Study

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 – 10:55 a.m. Kathleen Spanos
Color Play: Synesthesia in Irish Dance

10:55 – 11:20 a.m. Frans Evers
The Role of Synesthesia in the Innovation of the Art Curriculum

11:20 – 11:45 a.m. Christine Soffing
The sonification of the color wheel of Johannes Itten - a scientific art project

11:45 – 1:30 p.m. Working Lunch (Contribution for Pizza, or on your own)

1:30 – 1:55 p.m. Jools Simner
The ‘growth‘ of synaesthesia: developmental influences in coloured letters and tasty words

1:55 – 2:20 p.m. Mark Stewart
If You Could See What I Hear: Vantage Point Preference For Month Names In Time-Space Synesthesia

2:20 – 2:45p.m. Michelle Jarick
The Ups, and Downs, (and Lefts and Rights) of Synaesthetic Number-Forms

2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

3:00 – 3:25 p.m. Ursina Teuscher
Time-space associations in synesthetes and non-synesthetes

3:25 – 3:50 p.m. Ed Hubbard
On the relationship between ordinal sequences and space: The case of a number-form synaesthete

3:50 – p.m. Closing Remarks, Farewell