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 ...

Each person's perception is individually unique and subjective (Cytowic 2018.) Anesthesia is the phenomenon of no sensation. Synesthesia is the phenomenon of multiple sensations. Human senses include ...

Neuroscientists have found that people who experience a mixing of the senses, known as synesthesia, are more sensitive to associations everyone has between the sounds of words and visual shapes.

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 ...

It’s prime time to discuss an old favorite of mine (and of many color fans): synesthesia, that curious trick of certain brains, mine included, that makes one “see” colors in letters and numbers in dry ...

When researching musical topics recently, such as how musicians perceive distinctions in each key, it’s been striking how often these ideas are couched in suspicion. It seems that scholars and ...

Conventional wisdom says that synesthesia is innate -- you're either born with the condition or you're not, end of story. If you happen not to have been born that way but would really, really love to ...

One in 25 people have synesthesia, perceiving the world in unusual ways. An experience with one sense automatically leads to perception in another sense: for example, seeing colors when listening to ...

Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon that takes place when the five senses criss-cross and a person may, for example, be able to taste color. In a new interview with Surface Magazine, Kanye West ...