What colour is H? Is 4 brighter than 9? For most people these questions might seem baffling, but not for people with grapheme-color synesthesia. In the first long-term childhood study on ...
People with color-grapheme synesthesia experience color when viewing written letters or numerals, usually with a particular color evoked by each grapheme (i.e., the letter 'A' evokes the color red).
While Nathan Witthoft was earning his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he met a woman with color-grapheme synesthesia, a neurological condition where people see letters and numbers in ...
For most people, the plain, black letters on this page are rather unremarkable. For less than four percent of the population however, these words are a little more colorful, tactile, or might even ...
Recently I gave a TED talk on synesthesia, which you can see here on YouTube or at the TED–Ed web site. Mostly, given time constraints, it focused on grapheme synesthesia, one of the most common forms ...
To people whose sensory perceptions stay quietly inside their own sandboxes instead of coming out to play with each other, it will come as no surprise that synesthetes--people who experience letters ...
If you happen to find yourself seeing music, smelling color, or unusually combining two other senses, you may have synesthesia, a possibly genetic condition that affects about 4 percent of the ...
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 ...