CYTOWIC E. RICHARD

(P/B) SYNESTHESIA
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 ex...
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(P/B) WEDNESDAY IS INDIGO BLUE
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 a spouse'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 colo...
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