Synesthesia, at and near its borders

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Marks, Lawrence E ^a,b   Mulvenna, Catherine M ^c  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross modal correspondence; Cross modal imagery; Cross modal memory; Doppler illusion; Empathic perception; Hallucination; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885358831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00651     Document Type: Article

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