A possible account of synaesthesia dating from the seventeenth century

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-249

  Larner, A J ^a,b  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gulliver; John Finch; Robert Boyle; Swift; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BLINDNESS; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLORED TOUCH SYNAESTHESIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; HEARING; HISTORY; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; SENSATION; SMELLING; SYNAESTHESIA; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

COLOR; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SENSATION; TOUCH;

EID: 33746853385     PISSN: 0964704X     EISSN: 17445213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09647040500388661     Document Type: Review

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