Wherever I see the color ’4,’ it glows orange in my mind’s eye. I still see it as black on a white page but I know, somewhere deep down, that it’s really orange. It’s the same way I know that 7 is ...

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 ...

There is a new resource available for parents and educators working with young synesthetes: an online synesthesia "tool kit." Built by the Multisense Synaesthesia Research Lab, directed by Professor ...

Neuroscientists have found that people who experience a mixing of the senses, known as synesthesia, are more sensitive to associations everyone has between the sounds of words and visual shapes.

Synesthesia is a remarkable blending of senses that, in most people, are separate and distinct. While those of us born without the trait may say metaphorically, "This wine tastes wonderfully dry" or ...

The number “6” is a bright shade of pink. Listening to a cello smells like chocolate. And eating a slice of pizza creates a tickling sensation on the back of your neck. If you have experiences like ...

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

Synesthesia is a neurological condition that causes the brain to process data in the form of several senses at once. For example, a person with synesthesia may hear sounds while also seeing them as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since I can remember, numbers have appeared to me in specific colors. The number 2 is baby pink, 3 is sunshine yellow, 4 is ...

While Nathan Witthoft was earning his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he met a woman with color-grapheme synesthesia, a neurological condition where people see letters and numbers in ...