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Richard E. Cytowic

Wednesday Is Indigo Blue

Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia

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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 colors on his wooden alphabet blocks were all wrong. His mother understood exactly what he meant because s… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Eagleman, David M.
  • ISBN: 978-0-262-26055-8
  • EAN: 9780262260558
  • Produktnummer: 35449636
  • Verlag: MIT Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 12'207 KB
  • Abbildungen: 83 FIGURES, 4 TABLES

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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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