About this title: 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 explanation of synesthesia - and to conception of the organization of the mind, one that emphasized the primacy of emotion over reason. Through his research Cytowic came to explore a deeper reality that he believes exists in all individuals, but usually ...
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Description: Fine. 0262531526 MIT Press trade paperback, 1998, immaculate/unused, No marks/creases or defects...FINE (like new)...Bubble-wrapped and ed in a Box w/ confirmation. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780349105482ISBN:0349105480
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "IMAGINE a world of salty visions, purple odours, square tastes and green wavy symphonies. Although only ten people in a million experience the world in this manner-the result of a condition called synesthesia that has baffled scientists for over two centuries-neurologist Richard Cytowic demostrates that by understanding the workings of this peculiar state we can gain surprising insights into how human minds function. In 1979 Dr Cytowic met a man who literally ... read more
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