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
Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice, Vol. 1, No. S, pp. 108–129
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Publication Date
August 1, 2013
DOI
10.1037/2326-5523.1.s.108
ISSN
2326-5523