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 ...

It took just 72 hours for me to lose my sight entirely. Just before my blindness hit, I had been laid up with an unknown virus that had left me suffering severe headaches and sweats. My body’s immune ...

Only a few months ago, #TheDress made Internet headlines the world over. The blue-versus-white argument might have seemed simple, but beneath it was a profound philosophical and biological question: ...

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People who see colors while perceiving smells are better at distinguishing between different smells and different colors, and are better at naming odors, compared to a group without synesthesia.

Because before all this, ever since she was a child, AB had been able to see colors with musical notes and perceive unique auras around people, the study reports. This mixing of senses is a ...

Acquired synesthesia, as it is known, develops temporarily during a person’s lifetime, often provoked by hallucinogenic drugs, brain injury or sight loss. In my case, I had likely experienced two ...