Number Forms Synaesthesia Study

Date:
1888
Reference:
PENROSE/1/1/6
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L. S. Penrose Papers
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Notes by Elizabeth Josephine Penrose (née Peckover) titled "number forms". This appears to be a study into synaesthesia, in which various people have been asked to describe the patterns and colours in which they visualised numbers, letters, days, weeks, months, people and musical notes. Contains data on thirty three people, including fellow students of Westfield College and other friends of Elizabeth Josephine Penrose and members of the Peckover and Penrose families.

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1888

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36 folios

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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