Blind subjects construct conscious mental images of visual scenes encoded in musical form

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1458, 2000, Pages 2231-2238

  Cronly Dillon, J ^a   Persaud, K C ^a   Blore, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blind; Hearing shapes; Intermodality information transfer; Mental images; Music

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; EYE MOVEMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0034619349     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1273     Document Type: Article

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