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Synesthesia - Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience (Hardcover, New)
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Synesthesia - Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience (Hardcover, New)
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Owing to its bizarre nature and its implications for understanding
how brains work, synesthesia has recently received a lot of
attention in the popular press and motivated a great deal of
research and discussion among scientists. The questions generated
by these two communities are intriguing: Does the synesthetic
phenomenon require awareness and attention? How does a feature that
is not present become bound to one that is? Does synesthesia
develop or is it hard wired? Should it change our way of thinking
about perceptual experience in general? What is its value in
understanding perceptual systems as a whole?
This volume brings together a distinguished group of investigators
from diverse backgrounds--among them neuroscientists, novelists,
and synesthetes themselves--who provide fascinating answers to
these questions. Although each approaches synesthesia from a very
different perspective, and each was curious about and investigated
synesthesia for very different reasons, the similarities between
their work cannot be ignored. The research presented in this volume
demonstrates that it is no longer reasonable to ask whether or not
synesthesia is real--we must now ask how we can account for it from
cognitive, neurobiological, developmental, and evolutionary
perspectives. This book will be important reading for any scientist
interested in brain and mind, not to mention synesthetes
themselves, and others who might be wondering what all the fuss is
about.
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