Synesthesia is an extraordinary neurological condition in which a person simultaneously and involuntarily perceives one sense with another. There are an estimated 35 types of synesthesia that people ...

Can synesthesia have cognitive benefits and can it be taught? There are over 60 known types of synesthesia, a condition in which stimulation of one sense, such as taste, leads to automatic, ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, synesthesia is a phenomenon that causes sensory crossovers, meaning one sense triggers ...

David Moulton recalls his mother’s voice and describes it distinctively — not just the sound of it, but the color. “Imagine that it was scratching through silver … like the ‘Jurassic Park’ toy ...

I first heard about synesthesia when I was a kid, and it sounded amazing. People can hear colors! See music! What a fantastical, psychedelic world they must see. It was another 20 years before I ...

What if we told you that some people look at the color white and see a staggering array of shades? Or that others intuitively know what Thursday tastes like? It's not science fiction: There's a small ...

Let's call her "Kaylee." Her Mom says that's OK. The young Texan chose the pseudonym herself, taking it from a character who talks to machines on Fox's "Firefly" science fiction series. But this ...

One spring evening in the mid 2000s, Jonathan Jackson and Andy Linscott sat on some seaside rocks near their college campus, smoking the kind of cigarettes reserved for heartbreak. Linscott was, by ...