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Synesthesia (Paperback)
Series: Synesthesia
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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.
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