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 ...

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.

Concrete links between the symptoms of autism and synesthesia have been discovered and clarified for the first time. New research finds similarities between the two conditions and suggests how they ...

British actress and singer Cynthia Erivo recently shared that she has a rare sensory condition called Synesthesia. The Wicked ...

Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon. By Richard E. Cytowic / MIT Press ...

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 ...

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 ...

Synesthesia is one of the weirder quirks of human perception. In so-called synesthetes, one sense triggers another, unrelated one. Hearing the word “miracle” may create the feeling or perception of a ...

For Sean A. Day, drinking coffee causes him to see a pool of dark, green oily fluid. The smell of fresh cut grass produces a dark, purple color. And when he hears a piano he sees a big cloud of sky ...

What do Billie Eilish, Kanye West, and Lorde have in common, besides being famous musicians? They all share the same neurological condition, synesthesia, which may play a part in their artistic ...

Since Albert Hoffman discovered LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) in 1938 and hippie culture made it a popular social drug in the 1960s, its psychedelic effects on the brain have been a source of ...