Developing the mysterious condition in people who do not have it may help to improve learning skills, aid recovery from brain injury and guard against mental decline in old age, writes Helen Massy-Beresford

We talk with Leonardo about his ‘getting into’ the profession, nostalgia for childhood that sometimes strikes through a particular smell, and Milano. Leonardo loves traveling and has a wish to go back to Iceland, to enjoy the views anew, not surprisingly, location scouting is a part of the job he lo

The artist, celebrated in today's Google doodle, created the world's first truly abstract paintings

For the second instalment of the Studio Nicholson Talking Senses series, the conversation turns to the phenomenon of synaesthesia. A rare neurological condition that describes the intertwining of the senses, it manifests in a criss-crossing of perception – enabling some synaesthetes to ‘taste’ colour, or ‘see’ sound.

At the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the works of David Ligare (b. 1945), a contemporary Classicist and a maker of "literate pictures" are currently on view. I recently interviewed David Ligare, and asked him about his artistic development and his ideas.

A form of synaesthesia in which people experience letters or numbers in colour may be trainable, which could shed new light on how such traits develop

Pragmatic Theory sends the project entitled SYNAESTHESIA featuring Sayee , Doc iLLingsworth , Infinite Potentials , Chief , Brock Berri...

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Scientists at King's College London found that the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, links up regions of the brain that don't normally talk to each other.

Boredom inspires all sorts of creativity, and so it was that I came across this French artist while idly browsing pinterest boards. I saw a number of images which were heavy in calligraphic forms a…