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synaesthesia

The musician who sees colour and feels textures when she hears music

video    BBC World Service    16 August 2020

Valeria, 23, discovered she could see colours and feel textures

when listening to music as a child.

She has a condition called synaesthesia.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob2r0-GlPyg

synaesthesia        UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Synesthesia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/
m000r69z - 13 January 2021

synaesthesia        USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Synesthesia

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/
earning/hearing-colors-and-tasting-sounds-what-is-synesthesia.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/
health/25brai.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/
science/for-rare-few-taste-is-in-the-ear-of-the-beholder.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/
science/23tastecnd.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/
opinion/synesthesia-a-strange-gift-895652.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/23/
science/when-people-see-a-sound-and-hear-a-color.html

sounds > synaesthesia > auditory-visual synaesthete        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/10/
auditory-visual-synaesthesia-languages

The people who 'see' foreign languages:

How synaesthesia can help language learning        UK

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250224-
the-people-who-see-foreign-languages-
how-synaesthesia-can-help-language-learning

smell colour        UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/
uk-northern-ireland-51590864

synesthesia and the sense of touch        UK

https://www.npr.org/2000/07/28/
1080069/exploring-synesthesia-and-the-sense-of-touch

synesthete        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/
travel/sonic-tour-london.html

chromesthesia        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/26/
i-see-music-in-colour-
chromesthesia-sound-to-color-synaesthesia

hyperosmia, or super-smelling ability        USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/02/
1198908262/the-science-of-synesthesia-and-super-sensors

super sensors        USA

https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-10-02/
the-science-of-synesthesia-and-super-sensors

human perception        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/26/
i-see-music-in-colour-
chromesthesia-sound-to-color-synaesthesia

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