Have you ever tasted a word, or seen colors while listening to music? If you have, you may be among the 1% to 4% of people who have a fascinating trait known as synesthesia.
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I have a form of time–space synesthesia, so the new year arrives for me in a very physical way. I feel myself move around the year, almost like I'm traveling along a structure. December sits low and to my left; January lifts ...
Jan 2, 2026
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It's hard to pinpoint when synesthesia, the rare neurological condition where a stimulus that affects one sense prompts a response in a different sense, was first documented. Scientific literature marks its beginning in 1812, ...
Apr 3, 2025
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For most of us, creating mental images based on speech or memory is very easy.
May 20, 2024
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A team of epidemiologists and neurologists from Karolinska Institutet, Tilburg University and the University of Gothenburg has found a possible genetic link between synesthesia and autism. In their study, reported in the ...
Cambridge scientists are today launching a search to find people who have exceptional memory, as they attempt to understand why some people are much better at remembering than others.
May 3, 2023
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When you hear someone talk, do you see the words in your mind's eye? Or do you see what they're saying as a movie? It's easy to assume that the way you perceive the world is the same for everyone. But recent studies have ...
Feb 28, 2023
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The acquisition of reading and writing are complex mechanisms whose subtleties we do not yet understand. Fabien Hauw and Laurent Cohen (Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne University, AP-HP), neurologists at Paris Brain Institute, hope ...
Feb 1, 2023
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