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 ...

When Carol Steen first learned the alphabet in elementary school, she was smitten with the very first letter. "'A' was the prettiest pink I'd ever seen," she remembers telling her best friend on their ...

A recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition suggests that people with a unique perceptual trait called ...

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 ...

While most of us see sights and hear sounds, some people also hear colors and taste words, a mysterious phenomenon called synesthesia, which occurs when stimulating one of the five senses triggers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Synesthesia is a condition where a stimulation of one sense causes a simultaneous activation of another unrelated sense, merging two senses together. For example, synesthetes (a person with ...

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 ...

Plenty of us got our fill of green-colored food on St. Patrick's Day. ( Green beer, anyone?) But for some people, associating taste with color is more than just a once-a-year experience. These people ...

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 ...