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Richard E. Cytowic

Richard E. Cytowic is a professor of neurology at George Washington University. He is the author of several books published by the MIT Press, including Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology, Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age. He recently published a memoir The Magician’s Accomplice: My Father and I in the Age of Anxiety.

When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?

A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances

September 9, 2025