A person hears a piece of music and, at the same time, sees a deep blue colour. Another reads a word and senses a light taste ...

Kim Elms, a speech pathologist, shares her experience as an auditory-visual synaesthete ...

Judy Stokes, a retired GP, shares her experience of spatial-sequence synaesthesia ...

What if we could see sounds? For some people, this isn't a poetic image, but a neurological reality. This experience has a name: synesthesia. This rare phenomenon allows some individuals to perceive ...

There is no one like Dr. Franklin Story Musgrave, the trauma surgeon-turned-astronaut who space walked to fix the Hubble Space Telescope. No one. Dr. Story Musgrave, Dean of Astronauts. Source: Dr.

Carol Steen was only seven when she discovered she was different, upon telling a classmate the letter A was the prettiest pink she'd ever seen. "She looked at me like I was crazy," she recalls. Steen ...

Cytowic is the author of YOUR STONE AGE BRAIN IN THE SCREEN AGE. He is a pioneering researcher in synesthesia, Professor of Neurology at George Washington University, and the author of Synesthesia, ...