People who use sign language can experience synesthesia, a rare condition that mixes sensory information from different sources, causing people to see letters in certain colors, or taste words, a new ...

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People with standard vision can see millions of distinct colors. But human language categorizes these into a small set of words. In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: ...

After patient RDS (identified only by his initials for privacy) suffered a stroke, he experienced a rare and unusual side effect: when he saw something red, blue, green, or any other chromatic hue, he ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human eye can perceive millions of different colors, but the number of categories human languages use to group those colors is much smaller. Some languages use as few as three ...

Lauren Alyssa Bierly’s mind is a colorful place. She’s a synesthete, so colors materialize as she reads, thinks, and meditates. She has long been drawn to the art world—as a child at art camp, a ...