Can you see sounds and hear shapes?
Posted in curious stuff, science on May 29th, 2009 by Andrew
Can you see sounds and hear shapes?
Synaesthesia is a rare condition that results in a blending of the senses. For example, some people can ’see’ sounds, in the sense that sounds evoke certain colours in their mind.
While this condition affects around 1% of the population, according to Charles Spence, a professor of experimental psychology at Oxford University, everybody is a “synaesthete” to one degree or other. Try the test above and see if you can associate sounds and shapes.
Got it right? Most people do. The real question is why. Read more about synaesthesia and try out some more tests in this BBC article.
