Musical Skittles.
I'll bite. What are musical skittles? A quick search brought up some broadway musical. Is that what you're referencing?
Synesthesia savants utilize the limbic system to expand perception and interaction with reality. In some cases this appears to hack the consciousness\subconsciousness divide in unpredictible ways and simultaneously activate more brain regions dedicated to particular tasks. These are some of the proverbial "superhuman" or extreme statistical outliers referenced above.
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