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 ...

It's hard to pinpoint when synesthesia, the rare neurological condition where a stimulus that affects one sense prompts a response in a different sense, was first documented. Scientific literature ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...