Richard E. Cytowic

Richard E. Cytowic

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

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Neurologist Richard Cytowic has spent decades studying synesthesia, the phenomenon where one sense involuntarily triggers another. 
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"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."
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A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances.
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Why “audio gaps" in video meetings wear us out — and why we need the meaningful relationships forged in communal workspaces.