Research shows that the unique sensory experience of “synesthesia” can be acquired through training, and leads to a variety of mental benefits. Vincent van Gogh, Richard Feynman, Stevie Wonder. Each ...

Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses. People are usually born with the condition, but some people ...

As human beings, how we perceive the world makes us unique. For some people, those perceptions are even more distinctive: they may be able to “taste words”, “feel sounds”, or “see colours when looking ...

Jason Padgett was, at best, an average math student in school. Then, he got mugged outside a karaoke joint in Tacoma and suffered a violent blow to the head. Within a couple days — before he’d ...