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 ...

Discover the fascinating world of synesthesia, where senses intertwine, allowing unique perceptions like tasting words and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Studying these people can thus shed light on the brain mechanisms underlying conscious awareness." Earlier studies had shown that synesthetes who experience color for numbers and letters also ...

Jason Padgett was, at best, an average math student in school. Then, he got mugged outside a karaoke joint in Tacoma and suffered a violent blow to the head. Within a couple days — before he’d ...

Some things never change—for instance, my eternal love for The Simpsons. As a kid, my favorite character was Ralph Wiggum because of his quirky, obscure references and non sequiturs. Picture Ralph, ...