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<font size="2"><i><br>
<font face="Arial">"Sometimes described as
a blending of perceptions, synesthesia occurs when one of
the five senses is aroused, yet two respond."<br>
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<br>
</i></font><font face="Arial Narrow"><font size="+2"><b><font size="+3"><font color="#6666cc">BLUE CATS</font><br>
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b</b></font><font size="+2"><b><br>
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and</b></font><font size="+2" color="#6666cc"><b><br>
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CHARTREUSE KITTENS</b></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds</b><br>
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<b>By Patricia Lynne Duffy</b></font><BR>
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<DIV align=center><font face="Arial Narrow" size="3">Foreword by Dr. Peter
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<DIV align=center><font size="2" face="Arial"><i>"Nature,
so endlessly creative, has managed things so that each of
us, hosts of synesthesia or not, perceives a slightly
different world... a world colored by our one-of-a-kind
pattern of neurons and experiences" </i>-- Patricia
Lynne Duffy</font></DIV>
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P</font><font size="3">ATRICIA</font> <font size="+1">L</font><font size="3">YNNE</font> <font size="+1">D</font><font size="3">UFFY</font></b><font size="3">
</font><font size="3"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">is
the author of <b><i><a href="http://www.bluecats.info">Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color their Worlds</a></i></b> (Henry Holt &
Company), which has been reviewed in both the popular press
as well as in academic journals, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Cerebrum</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">APA Review of</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Books</i>. She has
taught English at New York University, the City University
of New York, and the UN Language Programme and has written
articles for numerous publications including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">New
York Newsday</i>, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">San
Francisco Chronicle</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
</i></span></font><font size="3">
(<a href="http://www.sensequence.de/arch/lett/paten.html"><b><i>All the
Colors of the Rainbow</i></b></a>)<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">,
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Boston Globe</i>,
and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Village Voice</i>.
</span>Ms. Duffy wrote two award-winning
essays, <b><i>Taipei Tales</i></b> and <b><i>
<a href="http://www.literal-latte.com/cgi-bin/cginews.pl?record=30">Dining in French</a></i></b> for literary newspaper, <i>Literal
Latte</i>. Her work is included in the anthologies <b><i>
<a href="http://www.europublic.com/en/A584.html">They Only
Laughed Later: Tales of Women on the Move</a></i></b> (Europublic Press) and
<i><b>Soulful Living</b></i> (HCI).<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
She is also the author of "Images of Synesthetes in
Fiction".
</span>She has worked and traveled extensively throughout Europe,
Africa, and
Asia and lived and worked in China for a year and a half.</span></font></font><p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">Her
special interest is in what she terms "personal
coding", the unique way in which each person codes
information and makes a one-of-a-kind "inner map"
of the world around them. She has been interviewed
about her research and her synesthesia by a number of
publications including, the <i>
<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/429870p-362299c.html">
New York Daily News</a></i>, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
New
York Times</i>, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A6930-2002Jan19¬Found=true">Washington Post</a></i>,
the <i><a href="Rhapsody-in-Blue.htm">Wall Street Journal</a></i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/feb01/synesthesia.html">Smithsonian
Magazine</a></i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
<a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_12_20/ai_58050561/print">Discover
Magazine</a></i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
<a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3540645/">Newsweek</a></i>,
as well as on TV and radio programs such as
<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/stream/ram.py?file=ranyco/ll020703c.ra">National Public
Radio</a>, the
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/hearingcolours.shtml">BBC</a>,
<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/stream/ram.py?file=studio360/studio040602a.ra&start="4:47.6"&end="11:00.5"">Public Radio International</a>, the Discovery
Channel, Tokyo Television and Asahi TV. Her web site, which links to many articles and
programs on synesthesia, is <a href="http://www.bluecats.info">www.bluecats.info</a>.
Her two-part article, <i><b>
<a href="Folio-Personal-Coding-Duffy.pdf">Personal Coding: the Varieties
of Linguistic Experience</a></b></i>, was published in August
2005 and January 2006 issues of <i>
<a href="http://www.matsda.org.uk">Folio Journal of the
Materials Development Association</a></i>. For her
research into synesthesia and work organizing events to
promote literacy (such as "Authors-for-Literacy"), Patricia
Lynne Duffy won the
<a href="http://www.thinkbank2.org/duffy.html">
2009 Distinguished Alumni Award</a> from
<a href="http://www.tc.columbia.edu/">Teachers College,
Columbia University</a>.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">Patricia
Lynne Duffy has been invited to give presentations on synesthesia at
<a href="http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/nov2008/ione_conference.html">
McMaster University</a>, University of South Florida, </span></font>
<font face="Arial"><em style="font-style: normal">
Universidad de Almer�a (in Spain),</em></font><font size="3" face="Arial">
the <a href="http://www.ics2006.de/">University of Hannover</a>,
the University of Texas at Houston, the San Francisco Art Institute, the
<a href="http://www.igda.org/Forums/showthread.php?postid=112395">
Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology</a>, the University of
California at Berkeley, Rockefeller University, the
University of Virginia, the University of California at San
Diego, Princeton University, Yale University and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>She is a co-founder of and consultant to the <b>
<a href="http://synesthesia.info/">American Synesthesia Association</a></b>. </font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Arial">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Contact:
</span></font><font face="Arial">
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></font></p>
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