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

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 ...

The ability to see colours when reading can be temporarily switched off by distracting a person's attention, an Australian study has found. The study, published in a recent edition of the journal ...

Hyper-excitability' in regions of the brain may underlie synesthesia, an unusual condition where some people experience a 'blending of the senses', new research suggest. Hyper-excitability' in regions ...

I have a form of time–space synaesthesia, so the new year arrives for me in a very physical way. I feel myself move around ...

Many people see words as colours, smells or sounds, and they swear it boosts their creativity. So could we all tweak our senses to see the world in this way? Olympia Colizoli doesn’t see the world ...

Is there such a thing as a bionic eye? People may be blind from birth or become partially sighted through disease or accidents. For those born blind, an artificial eye may not be all that useful ...

Imagine listening to music and seeing colours. Yes you read that right. That's exactly what happens to singer and songwriter Tamera due to a neurological trait she's got. She has something called ...

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 ...