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The Man Who Tasted Shapes (Bradford Books)
The Man Who Tasted Shapes - Bradford Books
Author: Richard E. Cytowic
Richard Cytowic's dinner host apologized, "There aren't enough points on the chicken!" He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out "too round." This offbeat comment in 1980 launched Cytowic's exploration into the oddity called synesthesia. He is one of the few world authorities on the subject. — Sharing a ro...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262532556
ISBN-10: 0262532557
Publication Date: 9/1/2003
Pages: 296
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Paperback
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harmony85 avatar reviewed The Man Who Tasted Shapes (Bradford Books) on + 982 more book reviews
Very interesting!
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A good first introduction to the world of synaesthesia and the study of the senses. This book is written as sort of an unfolding didactic story of one scientist's pursuit of understanding of synaesthesia. Very interesting. Seems to be the pop-science genre.


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