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Lynn C. Robertson & Noam Sagiv Published by Oxford University Press, 2004 
Synesthesia has implications for most major aspects of cognition: perception, attention, language, memory, emotion and consciousness. It has recently received strong interest by the popular press and has generated a great deal of research and discussion among scientists. Many intriguing questions are being pursued and are represented in the chapters of this book. Does synesthetic phenomenon require awareness and attention? How does a feature that is not present in the stimulus become bound with one that is? Does synesthesia develop or is it hard wired? Should it change our way of thinking about perceptual experience in general? What is its value in understanding perceptual systems as a whole? What brain mechanisms support it?
This volume brings together a distinguished group of investigators from diverse backgrounds, who provide potential answers to these questions. Although each contributor approaches synesthesia from a different perspective, and each began their investigation of synesthesia for different reasons, the similarities between their work cannot be ignored. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that the existence of synesthesia as a real phenomenon is no longer in question and it is now time to ask how we can account for it from a cognitive, microbiological, developmental and evolutionary perspective. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. General Overview
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