After a two meetings with Ms. Harrison, I have decided to focus my neuroscience project on synesthesia. Synesthesia is a condition that affects about 1 out of 20 people. It is Greek for senses coming together, which is an accurate definition. Synesthesia is a condition in which one stimulus triggers an unrelated stimulus of another sense. For example, the most common type is perceiving colors when one sees/thinks about numbers, letters, or words. More unusual types include seeing/perceiving colors when one hears music, and perceiving personalities for each letter or number. There are several different theories for how it starts. One is that all babies have synesthetic connections but they are pruned away in most brains. Another is that neurons associated with one sense turn up in the wrong part of the brain. For my project, I will present background information and identify the synesthesia rates in the community and possibly interview some people with synesthesia about their experiences. The next step is to research and to come up with a plan for identifying the synesthesia rates in our community.