For people with auditory-visual synesthesia, striking a piano key may ignite visions of turquoise geometric patterns or a twanging guitar string could create the sensation of billowing orange foam.

A person with naturally occurring synesthesia experiences the sensory world in overlapping layers. Sounds are seen as colors and tastes are processed as sounds. Overall, there are 60 documented forms ...

Scientists are still learning about how we gain the ability to read and write. One team of researchers has turned to an unusual group of people to study the mechanisms behind various learning ...

I have a form of time–space synesthesia, so the new year arrives for me in a very physical way. I feel myself move around the ...

Synesthesia is a perceptual experience in which one sensory input (like a letter or number) is automatically associated with another sensory experience (like a color or feeling). The prevalence of ...

Vladimir Nabokov first noticed, at age 7, his special gift of synesthesia when playing with colorful alphabet blocks that "were all the wrong color." Source: Contributor: Neil Overy/Alamy Stock Photo.

Mirror touch synesthesia is a condition that causes a person to feel a sensation of touch when they see someone else being touched. The term “mirror” refers to the idea that a person mirrors the ...