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.

A local music teacher has become one of the most successful choir directors in greater Cincinnati. She credits her rare neurological condition as one of the keys to her success. "For me, it's one of ...

What does music taste like? Most wouldn't think it has a flavor, but researchers recently concluded that certain types of music actually affect how food tastes in the mouth. Experimental psychologists ...

Synesthesia 2015 is upon us. The yearly festival dedicated to psychedelic music in its various manifestations takes place from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. across five venues near 27th and Larimer on Saturday, ...

It’s time to stop scoffing at the synesthetes: linking music to colors is totally normal. It’s not really about the notes, though. Researchers say the colors we find in music are actually the colors ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Imagine what the world would be like if numbers had specific spatial locations, music had shapes, or colors made ...

When Synesthesia debuted in Denver’s RiNo district a couple years ago, it was a Spartan affair at the Meadowlark and Larimer Lounge, attracting just 200 people. Now, the Larimer’s Bart Dahl says he’s ...

A writer of novels, poems, and short stories, Nabokov was not the only one in his family to experience synesthesia—his mother and son, Dmitri, also had chromesthesia. Nabokov’s descriptions of his ...

FREEPORT — There was a time when Roger Goodspeed of Freeport would attend a concert with his wife Jane, close his eyes and "see" colorful music swirling in his head. Goodspeed would often get accused ...

an older man with brown skin and a salt-and-peppered mustache reclines on a sofa with overear headphones on. His hands are behind his head, as if he's resting, and he's looking into the distance After ...