What colour does that feel? Tactile-visual mapping and the development of cross-modality

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1089-1099

  Ludwig, Vera U ^a,b   Simner, Julia ^b,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour; Cross modality; Neonatal synaesthesia hypothesis; Synaesthesia; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSATION DISORDERS; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875808614     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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