Journal article
Synesthesia: A New Approach to Understanding the Development of Perception
Abstract
In this article, the authors introduce a new theoretical framework for understanding intersensory development. Their approach is based upon insights gained from adults who experience synesthesia, in whom sensory stimuli induce extra cross-modal or intramodal percepts. Synesthesia appears to represent one way that typical developmental mechanisms can play out by magnifying connections present in early life that are pruned and/or inhibited during …
Authors
Spector F; Maurer D
Journal
Developmental Psychology, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 175–189
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Publication Date
January 2009
DOI
10.1037/a0014171
ISSN
0012-1649