At 7:00 pm next Thursday, March 6, Ed will be interviewed for local radio station WORT-FM’s “Perpetual Notion Machine” program, focusing on the learning processes in the brain. Ed will talk about what is known about how brains shape, and are shaped by, various learning experiences, leading to specialized systems in the brain for reading, math and a number of other skills.
The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia Featured in Psychology Today Blog
The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia was featured in a new blog post by author and synesthete Maureen Seaberg over at Psychology Today. Maureen’s blog, titled Sensorium, discusses a number of issues related to synesthesia, including famous synesthetes, recent research and other happenings of interest to the synesthesia community. Today, she reviewed the Oxford Handbook and quoted me and my co-editor, Julia Simner, extensively about the process of writing a Handbook of this scope.