One example is a particular auditory stimulus causing a person to experience gustatory (taste) stimulation. Synaesthesia is a natural phenomenon and is not associated with multiple and simultaneous ...

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 ...

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, ...

Michael Banissy has received funding from the British Academy and ESRC. Your brain is a fascinating piece of machinery. It has remarkable capacity for development. Very subtle changes in how the brain ...

Aimee and Rebecca might not look at all alike, but their names are both red, so forgive me if I confuse them occasionally. At least I can make up for it by remembering their birthdays. Is Harriet’s ...

Julia Simner receives funding from the European Research Council, the Misophonia Research Fund, and the Kavli Foundation. Look around you – what does the world feel like? Some of it – like the colours ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...