Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? Ever since I can remember, numbers have appeared to me in specific colors. The ...

To Carol Steen, the number five is yellow, Thursdays are dark burgundy and the elevator bell of her apartment rings in an "amazingly bright magenta." As someone with synesthesia, a neurological ...

Can synesthesia have cognitive benefits and can it be taught? There are over 60 known types of synesthesia, a condition in which stimulation of one sense, such as taste, leads to automatic, ...

Synesthesia is a perceptual experience in which one sensory input (like a letter or number) is automatically associated with another sensory experience (like a color or feeling). The prevalence of ...

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 ...

People with synesthesia experience the sensory world in a unique way — for example, they "taste" words or "hear" colors. Now, new research suggests that people who learn a second language but aren't ...

Someone with the condition known as grapheme-color synesthesia might experience the number 2 in turquoise or the letter S in magenta. Now, researchers have shown that those individuals also show ...