Greg Jarvis was marking a student's music-history paper when he encountered an unfamiliar word - synesthesia - linked to perceptual experiences that he had always considered a normal part of life.

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What does a piece of pizza sound like? Unless you have synesthesia, you’ve probably never heard the secret music of melted mozzarella and pepperoni for yourself. But thanks to a new app, you can.

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Music has long been recognized as "the shorthand of emotion," but typography also has the power to evoke feelings. Monotype's extensive international research with applied neuroscience company Neurons ...

Rapper Kanye West’s latest raucous rant crescendoed to the topic of synesthesia. Speaking on Thursday’s episode of “Ellen,” the ever-outspoken rapper credited his artistic genius to the neurological ...