October 17th, 2006
I’ve switched Synaesthete.com to new software, so please bear with me as I iron out the kinks!
A single login gives you access to the entire site. You shouldn’t have to register separately for the forums.
If you previously registered at Synaesthete.com, your old username and password should work. If your login doesn’t work, and you’re sure your username and password are correct, try logging in through the form at the bottom of the forums page. If all else fails, use the lost password function, and a new password will be mailed to you.
All forum posts have been saved - this should include any private messages you’ve sent or received.
Your existing preferences should have been saved, but it’s a good idea to check and make sure. Once you’ve logged in, visit your profile and check that your preferences are set the way you want them.
I’ve set up a temporary forum for reporting errors and problems. This is a public forum, so you don’t need to be logged in to post. Please use this forum as opposed to sending email. Thanks!
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A neuropsychological and familial study of developmental synesthesia
by Carol A. Crane
Dissertation, published March 20, 2006. Available as paperback or eBook.
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Synesthesia: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience 
by Lynn C. Robertson (Editor), Noam Sagiv (Editor)
“The research presented in this volume demonstrates that it is no longer reasonable to ask whether or not synesthesia is real
— we must now ask how we can account for it from cognitive, neurobiological, developmental, and evolutionary perspectives.”
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A Mango-Shaped Space
by Wendy Mass
“This contemporary novel does for synesthesia what Terry Hesser’s Kissing Doorknobs (1998) does for obsessive-compulsive
disorder: the lively personal story demystifies a fascinating condition.” — Debbie Carton, American Library Association
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The Man Who Tasted Shapes (Bradford Books)
by Richard E. Cytowic
“Space constraints prevent me from giving more than a mere flavour of the richness of Cytowic’s thinking. With
broad sweeps, he outlines a new landscape...Read this book — and the more objective you think you are, the more
open-minded you will need to be to appreciate it.” — The New Scientist
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Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge
by Kevin T. Dann
“This fascinating book provides the first historical treatment of synaesthesia and a closely related mode
of perception called eideticism. Kevin Dann explores the controversies over the significance of these unusual modes of perception.”
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Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their World
by Patricia Lynne Duffy
“What’s a ‘synesthete’? It’s a person in whom more than one sense responds when a single sense is
stimulated. Research suggests that one in 2,000 people experience synesthesia; for Duffy, letters (and the words they
combine to produce) have color.” — Booklist
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Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing
by John Harrison
“For the vast majority of us sensation is neatly divided into touch, vision, hearing, taste and smell
— the five senses. However, in various fields of artistic endeavour there seem to have been attempts to bring
these sensations together...” — Opening excerpt
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Synaesthesia: Classic and Contemporary Readings
by John E. Harrison & Simon Baron-Cohen
“Sixteen contributions explore the complex neurological condition known as synaesthesia. The authors
discuss the range of phenomena, differences and similarities of perception among synaesthetes...and the implications of
synaesthesia for theories of consciousness and for painting, literature, and music.” — Book News, Inc.
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The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
by Aleksandr R. Luria & Lynn Solotaroff (translator)
“The Mind of a Mnemonist is a slim book that tells the story of a man identified only as ‘S,’, a man who
literally could not forget. Luria details the difficulties ‘S’ had in grappling with daily life, where thinking clearly depends
so much upon forgetting the useless.”
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Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses (Springer Series in Neuropsychology)
by Richard E. Cytowic
“Cytowic discusses similiar phenomena, the relation of synesthesia to language, personality, and art, and concludes by exploring
the nature of reality.” — Book News, Inc.
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