It’s time to stop scoffing at the synesthetes: linking music to colors is totally normal. It’s not really about the notes, though. Researchers say the colors we find in music are actually the colors ...

Pupil size in people with synesthesia changed depending on how bright or dark the perceived colors were.

When I was little, I didn’t understand why calendars were in a grid, because to me, the months of the year present in the ...

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People who see colors while perceiving smells are better at distinguishing between different smells and different colors, and are better at naming odors, compared to a group without synesthesia.

Someone with the condition known as grapheme-color synesthesia might experience the number 2 in turquoise or the letter S in magenta. Now, researchers reporting their findings online in the Cell Press ...

If I told you the letter “G” is red, you might be confused. But if you had what’s called grapheme-color synesthesia (GC), there’s a good chance you’d argue I’m wrong. That’s because many people who ...

Conventional wisdom says that synesthesia is innate -- you're either born with the condition or you're not, end of story. If you happen not to have been born that way but would really, really love to ...

It took just 72 hours for me to lose my sight entirely. Just before my blindness hit, I had been laid up with an unknown virus that had left me suffering severe headaches and sweats. My body’s immune ...