The Man Who Tasted Shapes
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- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2003
Summary
In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, or “joined sensation,” illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what it means to be human.Richard Cytowic’s dinner host apologized, “There aren’t enough points on the chicken!” He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out “too round.” This offbeat comment in 1980 launched Cytowic’s exploration into the oddity called synesthesia. He is one of the few world authori…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262532556 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262532557 |
| Author: | Richard E. Cytowic, Jonathan Cole |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | A Bradford Book |
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Critics Review
”…written on a personal level that allows the reader to explore the psychic phenomenon of synesthesia with the author.” Anthony L. Vaccarino Contemporary Psychology
Cytowic brings all the imagination of a novelist to bear on his exploration of synesthesia.
—Glyn Maxwell, Vogue (European edition)With broad sweeps, [Cytowic] outlines a new landscape… read this book.
—Jennifer Altman, NewScientist…written on a personal level that allows the reader to explore the psychic phenomenon of synesthesia with the author.
—Anthony L. Vaccarino, Contemporary PsychologyAbout The Author
Richard E. Cytowic
Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., MFA, a pioneering researcher in synesthesia, is Professor of Neurology at George Washington University. He is the author of Synesthesia- A Union of the Senses, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology and (with David M. Eagleman) the Montaigne Medal-winner Wednesday Is Indigo Blue- Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, all published by the MIT Press.Jonathan Cole, D.M., F.R.C.P., is Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology, Poole Hospital, and at Salisbury Hospital (with its Spinal Centre), a Professor at Bournemouth University and a visiting Senior Lecturer, Southampton University.
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