Synesthesia is a rare condition in which one sense will trigger another; most scientists call this a “mixing of the senses”. In the brain of a synesthetic person, there are many more connections among the senses, which is why a person with synesthesia might “hear colors”. If someone without synesthesia heard a song, all they would be doing is listening to the sound of the song; however, someone with sound to color synesthesia might hear the song and see a color. Not all synesthetes have the same kind of synesthesia; some might have sound to color, as described earlier, others might have taste to sound. Synesthesia is an elaborate and complex topic, to learn more about it, please feel free to go to the Synesthesia Page for information.
The purpose of our trip to Boston was to kick-off a research project on virtually any topic. During our trip we visited numerous educational sites in the Massachusetts Bay Area, Woods Hole, and Plymouth. These destinations included many sites on the MIT campus, the MIT museum, the Boston Museum of Science, the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
and Plimoth Plantation. We split into groups to visit various locations on campus. The groups visited the MIT nuclear research reactor, the CSAIL building, the Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a few other research facilities on a wide range of topics. At the USGS we learned about seafloor mapping, and at Plimoth Plantation we explored early European colonization of the New England area from the perspectives of the colonists as well as of the native Wampanoag. At the Boston Museum of Science we learned about various scientific breakthroughs throughout history, and at the MIT museum we focused on the history of the Massachusetts Institute of technology. To read more about it, visit our Boston Page.