Tag Archives: synesthesia

Chimp’s gift for numbers

By Stephen Ornes / July 5, 2012
yumu the chimpanzee plays a number memory game faster and more accurately than any human player. Credit: T. Matsuzawa, Primate Research Institute

Translating numbers into colors may explain an animal’s apparent memory trick

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The Colorful World of Synesthesia

By Susan Gaidos / May 21, 2009

Science News for Kids explores the sensory explosion that defines the experience of people with this unusual, but not that uncommon nor unwelcome, condition.

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