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Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens

How Synesthetes Color Their World

Patricia Lynne Duffy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2002
Owl Books,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-8050-7187-0 (ISBN)

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Imagine a world in which words have colors and sounds have tastes. In his autobiography, Vladimir Nabokov described this neurological phenomenon, which helped inspire David Hockney's sets for the Metropolitan Opera. Richard Feynman experienced it while formulating the quantum theory that won him a Nobel Prize. Sometimes described as a blending of perceptions, synesthesia occurs when only one of the fives senses is aroused but two respond. Journalist Patricia Lynne Duffy draws from her own struggles and breakthroughs with synesthesia to help us better understand the condition, while describing some of the major theories surrounding it. An illuminating examination of the world of synesthetes, "Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens" is a must-read for science and health buffs, as well as for artists, writers, and creative thinkers-or anyone generally intrigued by the brain, the senses, and perception.

Patricia Lynne Duffy's essays and articles have appeared in the "San ""Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ms.," and many other magazines and newspapers. She is a co-founder of and a consultant to the American Synesthesia Association. She lives in New York City.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 197 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
ISBN-10	0-8050-7187-3 / 0805071873
ISBN-13	978-0-8050-7187-0 / 9780805071870
Zustand	Neuware