To most readers, this text looks black and white. But to a few, each letter possesses a different color, and reading becomes more than what’s in black and white. Those who read in color live with ...

When you hear the word love, does it taste like fresh ink and soft paper? When you see the number 4, does it burn a deep orange in your mind's eye? Does the letter E glow lime green above the page ...

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).

The more often you use a letter or number, the brighter the color you associate with it. No, it’s not a psychedelic experience, but a common link among people, called synaesthetes, who see vivid ...

Conventional wisdom says that synesthesia is innate -- you're either born with the condition or you're not, end of story. If you happen not to have been born that way but would really, really love to ...

Not everyone's senses are separate. Those with the neurological condition can hear colors, feel sounds and even see time as different points in space. When Bernadette Sheridan hears your name, she ...

In the 19th century, they called it “colored hearing”—letters and words, when spoken, took on mental weight and shimmered with color in the mind’s eye. For Miss C., who was interviewed in 1892, “n” ...

How does the color of text when studying or learning something affect a student’s performance on a test? I am an eighth-grader at Central Middle School. For an assignment, I designed and conducted a ...