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by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, an experimental psychologist who studies visual illusions as well as makes illusion artworks.
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Experiential Perceptions and Advanced Free Will
Senses:
- Sight
- Hearing
- Taste
- Smell
- Touch
Feelings:
- Happiness
- Sadness
- Anger
- Fear
- Surprise
- Disgust
Emotions:
- Love
- Joy
- Excitement
- Calm
- Anxiety
- Frustration
- Contentment
- Grief
- Euphoria
- Anticipation
Physical Sensations:
- Warmth
- Cold
- Pain
- Pleasure
- Tingling
- Numbness
- Itch
- Thirst
- Hunger
Cognitive States:
- Awareness
- Focus
- Confusion
- Curiosity
- Understanding
- Doubt
- Imagination
- Insight (Sudden clarity or realization that connects fragmented knowledge)
- Pattern Recognition (The ability to identify complex patterns or relationships across disparate fields)
- Hyperlexia (Unusually advanced reading or decoding skills often seen in savants)
- Numerical Fluency (Effortless manipulation and understanding of numbers, as seen in mathematical savants)
- Total Recall (Perfect memory for specific details, common in savant cases)
- Synesthesia (Blending of sensory experiences, where one sense triggers another, such as seeing sounds or tasting colors)
Social and Interpersonal Experiences:
- Empathy
- Connection
- Isolation
- Trust
- Conflict
- Cooperation
- Betrayal
- Support
Psychological States:
- Mindfulness
- Stress
- Relaxation
- Motivation
- Boredom
- Depression
- Enthusiasm
- Flow (A state of deep immersion and effortless concentration in a task)
- Mental Overload (Feeling overwhelmed by too much information or stimuli, common in cognitive savant experiences)
Moral and Ethical Perceptions:
- Justice
- Fairness
- Guilt
- Forgiveness
- Compassion
- Integrity
Aesthetic Experiences:
- Beauty
- Sublimity
- Awe
- Serenity
- Harmony
- Creative Vision (A deep and clear inner sense of form, composition, or innovation, often described by artists and savants)
Cognitive Specializations
1. Islets of Ability:
This term is often used in savant syndrome to describe isolated areas of exceptional skill or hyper-specialized cognitive abilities in areas such as memory, calculation, or artistic talents. These abilities appear to exist in stark contrast to the individual’s overall cognitive functioning, especially when they have developmental conditions like autism.
2. Hyperlexia:
This refers to an advanced ability to read and decode written words, often seen in some savant cases, typically in conjunction with autism. Individuals with hyperlexia can sometimes read at an extremely young age but may struggle with other aspects of cognitive or social development.
3. Prodigious Memory:
Many savants exhibit extraordinary recall abilities, particularly in specific areas such as numbers, facts, or music, but this is often described as rote memory rather than deep understanding. This form of memory recall is frequently associated with savant syndrome.
4. Hyper-Specialization:
This term is used to describe the focused nature of cognitive abilities in savant syndrome, where extraordinary skill is found in one specific domain (like mathematics or art), but there’s often limited generalization of those skills into broader cognitive areas.
5. Splinter Skills:
A term often used in the context of autism and savantism to describe narrow, highly specific abilities that stand out from the individual’s overall developmental profile.
6. Synesthesia-like Perception:
Some savants report experiencing cross-sensory perceptions (such as seeing sounds or feeling numbers), though not always in the strict sense of synesthesia. This perceptual phenomenon is sometimes observed in savants with extraordinary artistic or musical abilities.
7. Idiot-Savant (historical term):
While now considered outdated and inappropriate, “idiot-savant” was a term used historically to describe individuals who showed severe cognitive disabilities but had extraordinary abilities in specific areas. This term has evolved into the more neutral savant syndrome today.
8. Prodigious Savant:
A term used to describe individuals with savant syndrome whose abilities are so extraordinary that they would be considered exceptional even by neurotypical standards.
Miscellaneous Perceptions:
- Freedom
- Power
- Vulnerability
- Resilience
- Inspiration
- Courage
- Novelty Creation (The ability to synthesize entirely new ideas or forms from existing information)
- Hyper-Creativity (Sudden bursts of intense and innovative thought, leading to groundbreaking insights)
- Perceptual Overlap (The blending of different perception categories, such as cognitive EPs blending into sensory EPs)
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