Wednesday Is Indigo Blue Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia

Name: Wednesday Is Indigo Blue Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
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ISBN: 9780262516709

ISBN-10: 0262516705

ISBN-13: 9780262516709

Edition: 2009

Authors: Richard E. Cytowic, David M. Eagleman, Dmitri Nabokov

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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 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 colors on his wooden alphabet blocks were "all wrong." His mother understood exactly what he meant because she, too, had synesthesia. Nabokov's son…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English