Richard E. Cytowic, MD, MFA, a pioneering researcher in synesthesia, is Professor of Neurology at George Washington University. He is the author of Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology and the Montaigne Medal-winner Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia.
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One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait-like perfect pitch-synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or ... SEE MORE