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A vibrant exploration of the sensory marvel called synesthesia.

This book is a colorful journey into the world of synesthesia, a fascinating neurological trait where your senses intertwine and create a symphony of experiences. Richard Cytowic, a pioneer in the field, takes you on a captivating exploration, unveiling how synesthetes see colors in words and taste food in shapes. With each page, you'll discover the richness and uniqueness of human perception, reminding you that the world is a kaleidoscope of perspectives waiting to be embraced. So, dive in and let your senses dance as you unravel the wonders of synesthesia.

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ISBN: 9780262535090
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An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia—vividly felt sensory couplings—by a founder of the field.One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait—like perfect pitch—synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or shape, taste its distinctive flavor, or feel it as a physical touch. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Richard Cytowic, the expert who returned synesthesia to mainstream science after decades of oblivion, offers a concise, accessible primer on this fascinating human experience.Cytowic explains that synesthesia's most frequent manifestation is seeing days of the week as colored, followed by sensing letters, numerals, and punctuation marks in different hues even when printed in black. Other manifestations include tasting food in shapes, seeing music in moving colors, and mapping numbers and other sequences spatially. One synesthete declares, “Chocolate smells pink and sparkly”; another invents a dish (chicken, vanilla ice cream, and orange juice concentrate) that tastes intensely blue. Cytowic, who in the 1980s revived scientific interest in synesthesia, sees it now understood as a spectrum, an umbrella term that covers five clusters of outwardly felt couplings that can occur via several pathways. Yet synesthetic or not, each brain uniquely filters what it perceives. Cytowic reminds us that each individual's perspective on the world is thoroughly subjective.


Author: Richard E. Cytowic
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Date: 2018
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A vibrant exploration of the sensory marvel called synesthesia.

This book is a colorful journey into the world of synesthesia, a fascinating neurological trait where your senses intertwine and create a symphony of experiences. Richard Cytowic, a pioneer in the field, takes you on a captivating exploration, unveiling how synesthetes see colors in words and taste food in shapes. With each page, you'll discover the richness and uniqueness of human perception, reminding you that the world is a kaleidoscope of perspectives waiting to be embraced. So, dive in and let your senses dance as you unravel the wonders of synesthesia.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.