Synaesthesia is a rare phenomenon in which a sensory stimulus in one modality can trigger sensory experience in other modalities. For example, hearing a word (the 'inducer') might cause a synaesthete ...

Michael Banissy has received funding from the British Academy and ESRC. Your brain is a fascinating piece of machinery. It has remarkable capacity for development. Very subtle changes in how the brain ...

Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses. People are usually born with the condition, but some people ...

One woman’s unique experiences are helping us understand the nature of synaesthesia. We don’t know yet what causes synaesthesia, which links senses and can enable people to taste words or smell sounds ...

For most of us, music is mainly a feast for our ears. But people with synaesthesia experience music with more than their sense of hearing. Some see musical harmony in vivid colours, others have ...