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.

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When I was little, I didn’t understand why calendars were in a grid, because to me, the months of the year present in the ...

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 recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition suggests that people with a unique perceptual trait called synesthesia tend to experience different thematic patterns in their dreams compared ...

For as long as Connor “Cassidy” Boyd can remember, the sounds of bird songs have prompted visions of circles, and Boyd would see flashes of red when someone sounded the letter “A.” ...

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