'When birds of a feather flock together': Synesthetic correspondences modulate audiovisual integration in non-synesthetes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Parise, Cesare Valerio ^a   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; COORDINATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; HEARING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; TIME;

AVES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66449113985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005664     Document Type: Article

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