The perception of visual images encoded in musical form: A study in cross-modality information transfer

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1436, 1999, Pages 2427-2433

  Cronly Dillon, John ^a   Persaud, Krishna ^a   Gregory, R P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cross modality transfer; Vision through sound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0033534006     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0942     Document Type: Article

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