The brains of roughly one in 2000 people, more woman than men, have a curious tendency to blend their senses: sounds have colors, words have tastes. A new study, lead by Olympia Colizoli and described ...

This study used pupillometry to provide an objective assessment of a form of synesthesia in which people see additional color when reading numbers. It provides convincing evidence that subjective ...

Synesthesia is a condition where people perceive one sensory stimulus in multi-sensory modalities, such as ‘seeing’ sounds as different geometric shapes, or ‘tasting’ color as different flavors. One ...

People with synesthesia often report perceiving letters as appearing in different colors. But how do their brains accomplish this feat? What is perhaps most puzzling about this condition is that ...

Synesthesia is a condition where people perceive one sensory stimulus in multi-sensory modalities, such as ‘seeing’ sounds as different geometric shapes, or ‘tasting’ color as different flavors. One ...

Research shows that the unique sensory experience of “synesthesia” can be acquired through training, and leads to a variety of mental benefits. Vincent van Gogh, Richard Feynman, Stevie Wonder. Each ...

A new study has shown for the first time how people can be trained to 'see' letters of the alphabet as colors in a way that simulates how those with synesthesia experience their world. A new study has ...

Synesthesia is a condition in which certain stimuli (for example, hearing particular music) trigger an unusual additional sensory experience (for example, seeing metallic green). The associations are ...

We often think of synesthetes as those people who associate say, colors with numbers. But the phenomenon can occur with any of the senses. Simply put, when one sense is activated, synesthesia causes ...

Excerpted from The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky. Out now from W.W. Norton & Company. Could the names of some foods make them sound heavier or lighter than others? This ...