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 ...
The ten people in one million who are synesthetes are born into a world where one sensation (such as sound) conjures up one or more others (such as taste or colour). Although scientists have known about synesthesia for 200 years, until now the condition has remained a mystery. Experiments with more than 40 synesthetes led Richard Cytowic to an ...
Neurologists, neuropsychologists and cognitive scientists work with many of the same problems and patients and yet know little about the literature and approaches of the other disciplines. "The Neurological Side of Neurophysiology" is a primer for neurology residents, graduate students and established professionals from other fields who wish to ...
Why make statistics harder than it has to be? This book is a perennial best seller owing to its comprehensive coverage of statistical tools and methods delivered in a student friendly, step-by-step format. The text is non-threatening and presents concepts clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing style. All statistical concepts are ...
In this top-seller, Dr. Richard E. Cytowic explores the fascinating medical mystery known as "synesthesia"--a condition affecting one in 100,000 people for whom tastes have shapes, sounds have colors, and smells can be touched. "Appealing, suspenseful".--Publishers Weekly.
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Most people link senses only by way of metaphoric speech, saying, for example, that red is a "warm" color or that a certain cheese tastes "sharp." But a minority of individuals, known as synesthetes, experience the phrase "I see what you're saying" as literally true. In addition to studying the phenomenon for its own sake, neuroscientists are ...
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