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 ...

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.

It must be that these participants' childhood experience with the alphabet toy somehow influenced the way their synesthesia developed. Does playing with an alphabet toy make one a synesthete?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Synesthesia is a neurological condition in ... names have certain colors; every letter of the alphabet has a color and the alphabet has a certain sequence, too.” RELATED: If You Relate To ...

I have synesthesia, which means I hear color ... Instead, she suggested I create a visual alphabet that matched the musical chords I heard in my mind to colors. I thought it could be a way ...