Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia

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MIT Press, 2009 - Medical - 309 pages
In 'Wednesday is Indigo Blue', pioneering researcher Richard Cytowic and distinguished neuroscientist David Eagleman explain the neuroscience and genetics behind synesthesia's multisensory experiences.
 

Contents

1 What Color Is Tuesday?
1
2 A Kaleidoscopic World
23
3 Dont It Make My Brown Is Blue?
63
4 See with Your Ears
87
5 November Hangs above Me to the Left
109
6 A Matter of Taste
127
7 Auras Orgasms and Nervous Peaches
151
8 Metaphor Art and Creativity
163
9 Inside a Synesthetes Brain
199
10 Questions Ahead
235
Afterword
249
Notes
255
Bibliography
281
Index
301
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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 Sensesand The Man Who Tasted Shapes,both published by the MIT Press. David Eagleman received undergraduate degrees in British and American literature from Rice University in 1993. He received a PhD in neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute. He is currently a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. He has written several nonfiction books including Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Unconscious Brain, Live-Wired: The Dynamically Reorganizing Brain, and Cognitive Neuroscience. He has also written a work of fiction entitled Sum: Tales from the Afterlives. His articles have appeared in numerous publications including Science, Nature, the New York Times, Discover Magazine, Slate, Wired, and New Scientist.

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