There are rare humans who can taste their words, literally. Now a group of British scientists is trying to figure out how this unusual cross talk occurs in the brain. Julia Simner of the University of ...

For most of us, the boundaries between our bodily senses are clear-cut and rigid. But for a few rare individuals, the demarcation between vision and hearing, or between taste and touch, are less solid ...

I don’t believe there is a funnier word in the English language than “lugubrious.” It does not roll off the tongue like other smoother-sounding words. To the uninitiated it almost has a certain ...

Can words be tasted on the tongue? Can sounds be seen as coloured shapes? Such questions are not hypothetical, nor are they psychedelic hallucinations. They refer to a well-documented neurological ...

Synesthesia is a concept that has always fascinated people. People have long since claimed to process colors as sounds, or to associate colors with music or words. But how can we prove that ...

While most of us see sights and hear sounds, some people also hear colors and taste words, a mysterious phenomenon called synesthesia, which occurs when stimulating one of the five senses triggers ...

A man who has been able to 'taste' words since he was a child was once told by doctors that he had nothing more than a wild imagination. In James' case, he was just five years old when he first ...

A few decades back, researchers weren’t even sure synesthesia—the mixing of senses that can strongly link words to colors or smells to sounds—was real. But in 1980, the neurologist Richard Cytowic ...