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Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete

By Steve Silberman
Posted: February 6, 2012
Category: Art, Books, Culture, Drugs, Genetics, Interview, Multimedia, Music, Neuroscience, Personal computing, Photography, Science, Technology | Tagged Ellington, Hockney, Messaien, Nabokov, Perry Hall, Ramachandran, Ravel, Scriabin, synesthesia | 44 Comments
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