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The blended senses of synesthesia: Synesthetes can taste numbers, feel colors or have other sensations triggered by sensations. Studies of their brains could provide clues for neurological disorders.

Like synesthesia, many neurological disorders — such as schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, depression and epilepsy — have been linked to abnormal communication between brain regions. The hope is that as neuroscientists learn about how the connections in the synesthetic brain differ from those in normal brains, they will also gain insight into how these differences develop — and how they sometimes manifest as harmful disorders.

Photo: Some people with synesthesia might associate sounds with colors. Credit: Pascal Broze / Getty Images

actually i find this really interesting… what if these people could guide us to find some kind of connection between vision and sound; taste and mathematics? it would be another way to see the world. What if it’s not purely neurological?

Ned once said that different keys of music would appear different colours in her mind.

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    I actually have this. But it’s my hearing and my touch that is wired wrong. I hear sounds when I touch certain things,...

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    I always thought synesthetes were cool

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    When I die, I want to give my brain to science. Plz explain my music/colors/sensations, kthx. Look for language...

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