Synaesthesia: Learned or lost?

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 484-491

  Kadosh, Roi Cohen ^a   Henik, Avishai ^b   Walsh, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHRONOLOGY; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; JEW; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; JEWS; LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS;

EID: 63749092492     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00798.x     Document Type: Article

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