Vladimir Nabokov first noticed, at age 7, his special gift of synesthesia when playing with colorful alphabet blocks that "were all the wrong color." Source: Contributor: Neil Overy/Alamy Stock Photo.

While some symbols have universal translations, such as “a” matching up with red, every person with synesthesia experiences their own “color alphabet.” This explains why different ...

Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon. By Richard E. Cytowic / MIT Press ...

A team of scientists studying thousands of people who see letters as colors (a rare condition known as synesthesia ... the bottom), for each letter of the alphabet. It also shows the colors ...

Let’s talk about synesthesia. Did you know some people ... They asked study subjects to assign a color to every letter of the alphabet. Now, without talking to one another, participants ...

These people aren’t hallucinating or making things up — they’re experiencing synesthesia, a fascinating neurological trait where one sense automatically triggers another. While most of us ...

Synesthesia is rare, but on a the latest season of "Love on the Spectrum," cast member David talks about the condition and his longtime girlfriend Abbey serenades him about how she's learned to ...

In Cohen and Hauw’s study of 26 ticker tapers, 69 percent reported that they had at least one other type of synesthesia. (I personally associate a few letters of the alphabet and days of the ...

It's hard to pinpoint when synesthesia, the rare neurological condition ... the colors he sees in connection with the letters of the alphabet. A and E: vermilion, I: white, O: orange and so ...