THE MAN WHO TASTED SHAPES
Richard E. Cytowic, M.D.
The MIT Press, 1999
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The reader will become aware of the phenomenon of synesthesia in which input from one sense becomes transformed into another, such as seeing words in colors, feeling sounds as pressure, or in the words of the title 'tasting shapes.' Dr. Cytowic became aware of this when a host of his asked whether he'd help in the kitchen and said, 'Oh, dear, there aren't enough points on the chicken.' It tasted too 'round.' In about ten in every one million people, the normal relationships between input information and experience somehow become mixed.
The reader will understand the underlying phenomenon that synesthesia illustrates: that the brain makes its representation of the world with the aid of sensory information, but human experience is not a one-to-one correspondence with the outside sensory information.
Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., is the founder of Capitol Neurology, a private clinic in Washington, D.C., and the author of several books and articles, as well as being a nominee of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for his cover story in the NEW YORK TIMES. Dr. Cytowic serves on the editorial boards of the journals BRAIN & LANGUAGE and BRAIN & COGNITION, and is a Fellow of Britain's Royal Society of Medicine.
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