Richard E. Cytowic

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Richard E. Cytowic is Professor of Neurology at George Washington University. His books include Synesthesia, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology, and Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age.

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The Big Think Interview

The neuroscience behind synesthesia

Neurologist Richard Cytowic has spent decades studying synesthesia, the phenomenon where one sense involuntarily triggers another.

Richard E. Cytowic

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The Big Think Interview

The biological necessity of boredom in the age of screens

"I call it a tyranny of attention because there's so many demands on our attention coming from so many different directions that we are simply overwhelmed and we don't have the mental bandwidth to cope with it."

Richard E. Cytowic

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