Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter J” as shimmering magenta or the number 5” as emerald green, hear and taste her husband's voice as buttery golden brown. Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiar sensory gift—believing either that everyone else senses the world exactly as they do, or that no one else does. Yet synesthesia occurs in one in twenty people, and is even more common among artists. One famous synesthete was novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who insisted as a toddler that the…
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Weitere Autoren: Eagleman, David M. / Nabokov, Dmitri
- ISBN: 978-0-262-51670-9
- EAN: 9780262516709
- Produktnummer: 11350490
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.5 cm 530 g
- Gewicht: 530
Über den Autor
Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., MFA, a pioneering researcher in synesthesia, is Professor of Neurology at George Washington University. He is the author of Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology and (with David M. Eagleman) the Montaigne Medal-winner Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, all published by the MIT Press.David M. Eagleman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Center for Synesthesia Research.
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