Are we all born synaesthetic? Examining the neonatal synaesthesia hypothesis

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1240-1253

  Deroy, Ophelia ^a   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossmodal correspondences; Innate; Multisensory development; Neonatal synaesthesia; Statistical regularities

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRIGHTNESS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONFUSION; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY EVALUATION; SYNESTHESIA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84878820595     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.04.001     Document Type: Review

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