A writer of novels, poems, and short stories, Nabokov was not the only one in his family to experience synesthesia—his mother and son, Dmitri, also had chromesthesia. Nabokov’s descriptions of his ...

Imagine sitting at a piano and watching colors bloom in the air with every note you strike. Or reading a book and seeing each letter glow in its own distinct hue — the letter A a vivid crimson, B a ...

Imagine if every time you smelled a rose, your brain conjured up the taste of porridge. Or when feeling the discount leather of a DFS sofa, you saw blotches of purple light? Those may seem like ...

In recent years, you might’ve heard artists like Pharrell Williams and Kanye West self-identifying as having synesthesia—something that West says has allowed him to make "sonic paintings” and “see ...

The term synesthesia is used to describe a specific neurological condition, in which a person may experience multiple senses at once, instead of just one. For example, if someone is completing a math ...

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 ...

Synesthesia is an extraordinary neurological condition in which a person simultaneously and involuntarily perceives one sense with another. There are an estimated 35 types of synesthesia that people ...

If I told you the letter “G” is red, you might be confused. But if you had what’s called grapheme-color synesthesia (GC), there’s a good chance you’d argue I’m wrong. That’s because many people who ...