Cretien van Campen

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Author and scientific researcher Cretien van Campen, Ph.D., studied psychology, philosophy and cultural studies at the universities of Nijmegen and Utrecht in the Netherlands. His master thesis and Ph.D. thesis were devoted to Gestalt theories of perception in psychology, aesthetics and history of art. From the mid-eighties, he has published a number of articles on the perception of art and a book on pictorial illusions in science and the arts. In between he travelled in various Asian countries, published articles on culture and cognition, and entered health care research in the late eighties. Besides that, he is studying phenomena of synaesthesia in collaboration with artists and scientists since the mid-nineties. In collaboration with artist Clara Froger he developed the Netherlands Color Synesthesia method. Together they organized synesthesia days in Holland. Cretien edits in cooperation with Greta Berman (New York) and Bulat Galeyev (Kazan, Russia) the Leonardo online bibliography "Synesthesia in Science and Art". Fall 2007 MIT Press (Cambridge, MA) published his latest book The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science. His latest Dutch book is Gekleurd verleden: Verhalen over het geheugen van de zintuigen (Colored Past: Tales of the memory of the senses). Currently is affiliated as a senior researcher in Health & Care at the Social and Cultural Planning Office in the Netherlands, where his main subject is the health and happiness of the Dutch in historical and international perspective. He has been writing and presenting on the subjects of senses (synesthesia), aesthetics, health  and happiness on numerous national and international occasions (consult the lists of publications below).
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Publications on synesthesia and perception
Publications on health and happiness

photo: Marcia Smilack

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