Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Dr. Richard Cytowic on Synesthesia

Dr. Richard Cytowic, MD, a leading neurologist in the field of synesthesia talks to Nora Young on Spark.

Listen at 20:30-26:50

"[f]ar from being rare synesthesia is extremely common and the question is what good does it do?...What we think it is, is a gene for creativity and what this gene does is make us able to make connections between seemingly different things. And that's the definition for metaphor, seeing the similar in the dissimilar" (Cytowic).

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