Man Who Tasted Shapes - Softcover

Cytowic, Richard E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907845436 ISBN 13: 9780907845430

Publisher: Imprint Academic, 2003

Synopsis

The ten people in one million who are synaesthetes are born into a world where one sensation (e.g. sound) conjures up one or more others (e.g. taste or colour). Although scientists have known about synaesthesia for two hundred years, until recently the condition has remained a mystery. Extensive experiments with more than forty synaesthetes led Richard Cytowic to an explanation of synaesthesia that emphasized the primacy of emotion over reason. In this medical detective adventure he reveals the brain to be an active explorer and offers a new view of what it means to be human that turns upside down conventional ideas about reason, emotion, and who we are.

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Review:

"Read this book ― and the more objective you think you are, the more open-minded you will need to be to appreciate it."

Source: New Scientist

About the Author:

Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., founded Capitol Neurology, a private clinic in Washington, D.C., and teaches at George Washington University Medical Center. He is the author of Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses and The Man Who Tasted Shapes, both 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0907845436
• ISBN 13: 9780907845430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252