awash in hues and tones that evade the average person. Those extraordinary individuals, known as synesthetes, encounter interactions among their senses daily: They see colors when they hear musical ...

For most of us, the boundaries between our bodily senses are clear-cut and rigid. But for a few rare individuals, the demarcation between vision and hearing, or between taste and touch, are less solid ...

When some people hear a high C note, they experience it as having a certain color. Others may have strong color experiences when touching different things. These are examples of the phenomenon known ...

Being able to identify a smell or flavor appears to be the most important factor in how some synesthetes 'see' them, according to a new study. Being able to identify a smell or flavour appears to be ...

To be a synesthete is to need a sense of humor at times—including tolerating others’ comical observations on the traits. In my world, one non-synesthetic friend quipped, “I bet your favorite Christmas ...

The letter "c" is light blue, "a" evokes a sense of "weathered wood," and "r" feels like "a sooty rag being ripped." So wrote the novelist Vladimir Nabokov -- and he wasn't simply being poetic. He was ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Imagine what the world would be like if numbers had specific spatial locations, music had shapes, or colors made ...

For most of us, the boundaries between our bodily senses are clear-cut and rigid. But for a few rare individuals, the demarcation between vision and hearing, or between taste and touch, are less solid ...

It sounds like something out of an X-Men movie: people who can “hear” colors. But according to researchers, up to 15 percent of the population hears colors, tastes sounds, and experiences various ...

If you ask Emma Anders about the number five, she’ll tell you that it’s red. She’ll also tell you that five is a mischievous, self-centered brat — like a kid throwing a temper tantrum at a party. “Two ...

"I feel your pain" is often meaningless pablum, but for some people with unusual brain wiring it is literally true. People with a condition called mirror-touch synesthesia experience the sensation of ...

I have a form of time–space synesthesia, so the new year arrives for me in a very physical way. I feel myself move around the ...