Richard E. Cytowic is best known for rediscovering synesthesia in 1980 and returning it to the scientific mainstream where it is now seen as crucial to basic theories of how the brain works.
A Pulitzer Prize nominee for his James Brady cover story for the New York Times Magazine, Dr. Cytowic’s writings range from textbooks to his Love Doctor essays to brief medical biographies of Anton Chekhov and Maurice Ravel.
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Oliver Sacks says: “Twenty years ago, synesthesia—the automatic joining of two or more senses—was regarded by scientists (if at all) as a rare curiosity. We now must regard it as an essential, and fascinating, part of the human experience. It may well be the basis for human imagination and metaphor. No one has done more than Richard Cytowic to bring a careful neuroscientific attention to synesthesia, grounded in decades of research. His work has changed the way we think of the brain, and Wednesday Is Indigo Blue is a unique and indispensable guide for anyone interested in how we perceive the world.”
Dr. Cytowic’s work is the subject
of numerous documentaries.
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