Richard E. Cytowic is best known for rediscovering synesthesia in 1980 and returning it to the scientific mainstream.
A Pulitzer Prize nominee for his James Brady cover story for the New York Times Magazine, Dr. Cytowic’s writings range from science books to his Love Doctor essays and 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. [Now] it may well be the basis for human imagination and metaphor. No one has done more than Richard Cytowic & David Eagleman, grounded in decades of research, to change 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.”
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