Synaesthesia is a rare neurological phenomenon that causes senses to overlap, turning sounds into colors and words into textures, revealing how differently the brain can experience ...

Identical twins Helen Besgrove, a marketing executive, and Kirsty Neal, a GP, share their different experiences perceiving the world ...

Imagine what the world would be like if numbers had specific spatial locations, music had shapes, or colours made sounds. Perhaps you'd experience the bass in the Jamie xx track Gosh as cuboid, ...

Autistic patients are more likely to also have synaesthesia, suggests new research in the journal Molecular Autism. Synaesthesia involves people experiencing a 'mixing of the senses', for example, ...

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Number colours People with the ability to see colours for letters or numbers show heightened activity in the area of the brain associated with vision, UK researchers have found. The study, published ...

Your brain is a fascinating piece of machinery. It has remarkable capacity for development. Very subtle changes in how the brain develops, or in how it responds, can lead to us experiencing the world ...

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Synaesthesia is a neurological condition found to enhance memory and learning. Now, scientists say seeing in colour could help when it comes to learning a second language. My mother's name is the ...

Dr John Harrison, former senior neuropsychologist and research fellow at Cambridge University, has written a book, Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing, detailing his 12 years of research into the ...

If romantic films are to be believed, kissing someone special can leave you seeing fireworks. For 38-year-old Sariah of California, it’s closer to seeing the Northern Lights. What she experiences ...