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Film, Video Wednesday is Indigo Blue: How Synesthesia Speaks to Creativity

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Title

  • Wednesday is Indigo Blue: How Synesthesia Speaks to Creativity

Summary

  • Neurologist Richard Cytowic rediscovered the involuntary joining of different senses in 1980 and returned it to the scientific mainstream. In his recent book, "Wednesday is Indigo Blue," Cytowic sums up 30 years of exploration into synesthesia's place in both science and art. Far from a mere curiosity, it is an elevated form of the perception everyone already has. Minds that function differently are not so strange after all, and everyone can learn from them. Brains are already highly cross-wired, and with 1 in 23 people having the trait, synesthesia may hold a key to human creativity. This lecture was presented as part of the Library's Music and the Brain series.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Music Division, sponsoring body
  • Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-10-30.

Headings

  • -  Science, Technology
  • -  Technology, Industry

Notes

  • -  Classification: Medicine.
  • -  Classification: Science.
  • -  Richard Cytowic.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-10-30.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688340

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division, and Technology Library Of Congress. Science. Wednesday is Indigo Blue: How Synesthesia Speaks to Creativity. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-30, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688340/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Library Of Congress. Music Division, S. B. & Library Of Congress. Science, T. (2009) Wednesday is Indigo Blue: How Synesthesia Speaks to Creativity. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-30. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688340/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division, and Technology Library Of Congress. Science. Wednesday is Indigo Blue: How Synesthesia Speaks to Creativity. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-30, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688340/>.