Dermo-optical perception: The non-synesthetic "palpability of colors" a comment on Larner (2006)

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 253-255

  Brugger, Peter ^a   Weiss, Peter H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cutaneous thermal sense; Functional reorganization; Neuroplasticity; Parapsychology; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOTE; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE; COLOR; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SENSATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42249089160     PISSN: 0964704X     EISSN: 17445213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09647040601013325     Document Type: Note

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