Kim Elms, a speech pathologist, shares her experience as an auditory-visual synaesthete ...

For people with auditory-visual synesthesia, striking a piano key may ignite visions of turquoise geometric patterns or a twanging guitar string could create the sensation of billowing orange foam.

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minnesota — "Communities that KARE" showcases the changemakers in our neighborhoods. A White Bear Lake artist mixes mediums to educate and create a unique experience for music and art ...

Using whole-exome sequencing, researchers identified genetic variants linked to synesthesia, a rare neurological phenomenon connecting different sensory experiences, in three multigenerational ...

A person with naturally occurring synesthesia experiences the sensory world in overlapping layers. Sounds are seen as colors and tastes are processed as sounds. Overall, there are 60 documented forms ...

Synesthesia is a neurologic trait in which specific inducers, such as sounds, automatically elicit additional idiosyncratic percepts, such as color (thus “colored hearing”). One explanation for this ...

PASADENA, Calif.-- Individuals with synesthesia perceive the world in a different way from the rest of us. Because their senses are cross-activated, some synesthetes perceive numbers or letters as ...