Synesthesia

**synesthesia:**
noun Physiology & Psychology The production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. media type="youtube" key="aIEiOrxhtNQ" height="315" width="560"

The two boys each have a different kind of synesthesia... the one on the floor is smelling records and saying what color they smell like (so he perceives smells as colors), and the one with the headphones is 'listening' to the different foods (he perceives taste as sound). The things coming out of the speakers shows how sound can be perceived as different colors, shapes or textures. ** What other types of synesthesia can you identify? **

Dr. Sacks on Synesthesia media type="youtube" key="1B9pYVcvC4s" height="315" width="420" [|Dr. Oliver Sacks on synethesia]

Are you a synesthete? Maybe a little? Find out [|here] and [|here]

For connections to the Arts and perhaps our evolutionary origins Read: [|A Natural History of the Senses]