Synesthesia: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond

by Richard E. Cytowic

Book Overview

For decades, scientists who heard about synesthesia hearing colors, tasting words, seeing colored pain just shrugged their shoulders or rolled their eyes. Now, as irrefutable evidence mounts that some healthy brains really do this, we are forced to ask how this squares with some cherished conceptions of neuroscience. These include binding, modularity, functionalism, blindsight, and consciousness. The good news is that when old theoretical structures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262032961
• ISBN13: 9780262032964
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 10.2"