I spend my days surrounded by thousands of written words, and sometimes I feel as though there’s no escape. That may not seem particularly unusual. Plenty of people have similar feelings. But no, I’m ...

(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 ...

Q: Is there really a condition where someone can hear a sound and it makes them see a color? A: Yes, and that condition is called synesthesia. It will be the topic of today’s column. We have five ...

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 ...

As human beings, how we perceive the world makes us unique. For some people, those perceptions are even more distinctive: they may be able to “taste words”, “feel sounds”, or “see colours when looking ...