In the first long-term study on grapheme-color synesthesia, researchers followed 80 children, including 8 synesthetes, to determine when and how associations between graphemes and colors develop. What ...

Synaesthesia — a phenomenon that occurs when one sense is stimulated by another — has intrigued scientists for more than a century. Recently, imaging techniques have advanced studies of this condition ...

A $1 million prize is offered for deciphering the enigmatic Indus script; new analyses and artificial intelligence reignite ...

Learning to read in most alphabetic orthographies requires not only the acquisition of simple grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) but also the acquisition of context-sensitive GPCs, where ...

Tweezer in hand, Mandolin Brassaw concentrates like a surgeon in the operating theater as she places metal letters in minuscule 6-point type into a curved tray. She spells out the words of a Yayoi ...

What colour is H? Is 4 brighter than 9? For most people these questions might seem baffling, but not for people with grapheme-color synesthesia. In the first long-term childhood study on ...