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The former Pink Floyd star died from cancer in July at the age of 60.Late Pink Floyd star Syd Barrett left his brother and two sisters a $2.25 million estate in his will. The former singer/songwriter died from cancer in July at the age of 60. His family was forced to write Barrett's will for him, because he was considered incapable himself under the Mental Health Act. Barrett left the legendary band in 1968 after suffering an LSD-induced breakdown.

A new exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky's work shows how the artist used his synaesthesia - the capacity to see sound and hear colour - to create the world's first truly abstract paintings. Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky is widely credited with making the world's first truly abstract paintings, but his artistic ambition went even further. He wanted to evoke sound through sight and create the painterly equivalent of a symphony that would stimulate not just the eyes but the ears as well. A new exhibition at Tate Modern, Kandinsky: Path to Abstraction, shows not only how he removed all recognisable subjects...

US scientists say they can explain why some people 'see' colours when they look at numbers and letters. As many as one in 2,000 people has an extraordinary condition in which the five senses intermingle, called synaesthesia. Some see colours when they hear music or words. Others 'taste' words. The study in Neuron tracked the brain activity of people with the most common form and found peaks in areas involved with perceiving shapes and colours. Cross-wiring The University of California San Diego team said their findings lend support to the idea that the condition is due to cross-activation between adjacent...