Synesthesia as a basis for metaphor and art?

Posted by blainegarrett

December 5, 2007

Matrix masters podcast 118 features an hour lecture with Vilayanur S. Ramachandran MD, PhD, a professor of Neurosciences at UC SanDiago. He focuses half of the talk on one my personal favorite fringe topics, synesthesia and the other on art. He essentially gives a scientific explanation for humans’ desire for visual art and also sticks it to Western Art History. Installments like this are one of the reasons I love Matrix Masters! Give it a hear. Vilayanur is quite engaging as well as humorous and there isn’t a lot of scientific jargon to turn off the less scientifically inclined.