Have you ever tasted a word, or seen colors while listening to music? If you have, you may be among the 1% to 4% of people who have a fascinating trait known as synesthesia.

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Unless you’ve experienced it yourself, the phenomenon of synesthesia is nearly impossible to grasp. The neurological condition in which one sense can trigger an experience through another (seeing ...

I've had the honor of reporting on and getting to know former Bosnian Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United Nations Muhamed "Mo" Sacirbey since the days when that terrible war began in the ...

It was 39 years ago this month -- June, 1975 -- the dawn of the modern era of interest in synesthesia. The headline read, "Synesthesia: The Lucky People With Mixed-Up Senses." The article was by one ...

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 ...

Some people see numbers as always having certain colors — for example, they see the number 5 as red. A new study reveals that their eyes react as if they see those colors in the real world. The study ...