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 ...

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 ...

Some are born with enhanced senses. The rest of us can learn. The science of synesthesia and super sensors Joy Milne, a Scottish nurse, met her husband Les in high school. Nearly 15 years after they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brooke Bhola, 24, has always associated letters with colors. When she sees a U, it’s yellow. The letter N is light blue. And T is ...

Through the early history of computing, information flowed in through digital text and out through digital text. Artificial intelligence was thought by many to be science fiction or imagination. Now, ...

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

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 year, almost like I'm traveling along a structure. December sits low and ...

For most people, colors are colors and words are words. There's no overlap. But for me, a "synesthete," colors and words are blended together. Monday is pink, September is yellow, the letter "J" is ...

(via SciShow) Do you taste something bitter when you hear the right word? Maybe you see a flash of a certain color instead. If so, you might have synesthesia. But it turns out, we're ALL capable of ...

A new study found that synesthesia is several times more prevalent in musicians than in non-musicians. For example, synesthesia linking sound and color was present in between 0.3% and 1.3% of ...