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Author Cytowic, Richard E.

Title Wednesday is indigo blue : discovering the brain of synesthesia / Richard E. Cytowic and David M. Eagleman.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  612.8233 C993w 2009    ---  Available
Description viii, 309 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), music ; 24 cm.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-299) and index.
Contents What color is Tuesday? -- A kaleidoscopic world -- Don't it make my brown I's blue? -- See with your ears -- November hangs above me to the left -- A matter of taste -- Auras, orgasms, and nervous peaches -- Metaphor, art, and creativity -- Inside a synesthete's brain -- Questions ahead.
Summary In Wednesday Is Indigo Blue, pioneering researcher Richard Cytowic and distinguished neuroscientist David Eagleman explain the neuroscience and genetics behind synesthesia's multisensory experiences. --from publisher description
Subject Synesthesia.
Emotions and cognition.
Perceptual Disorders -- physiopathology.
Auditory Perception.
Color Perception.
Added Author Eagleman, David.
ISBN 9780262012799 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262012790 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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