TED RSS Feed: Synesthesia on demand

[David Sandusky]

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Many of us have a touch of synesthesia -- seeing numbers or hearing musical tones as colors, thanks to a lucky bit of crossed wiring in the brain. Many commenters on Vilayanur Ramachandran's TEDTalk talk engagingly about their experience with it. Want to know what it feels like? Try this: a synesthesia generator >>.

It's a feature of the hypertext exploration site Hypertextopia. And yes, you can change the colors. So if you see A as white and C as green, but your brother insists that A is red (because, as Ramachandran points out, synthesthesia runs in families, but no one has it in exactly the same way), click the row of letters below the text window to correspond to your vision.





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