By Lawrence E. Marks
The team spirit of the Senses demonstrates that the senses of sight, listening to, flavor, scent, contact and temperature, instead of being separate, self sufficient channels, are heavily knit structures that endure many vital resemblances. Dr. Marks explores the similarities and interrelations one of the quite a few experience modalities, putting exact emphasis on synesthesia in sensation, belief, language and notion. the 1st a part of the publication offers with sensory and perceptual phenomena and explores intensive 4 primary themes: the typical perceptual functionality of the psychophysical houses; and customary neural homes. within the moment half, the writer examines how the cohesion of the senses finds itself in language, specifically poetic language. detailed in its method of the senses as interrelated modalities, the monograph offers with a vast diversity of phenomena in sensory procedures and belief and their dating to philosophy and poetry. it's written for cognitive psychologists, details scientists, and others attracted to sensory processing; neuro-scientists, philosophers, and theorists in track, artwork and aesthetics
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There is a psychological persuasiveness to the agreement of information from different sensory channels that helps engender in most of us an unshakable personal epistemology. Before trying to tread deeper water, it is important to elucidate what is meant when it is said that perception resembles or copies reality. How close to the original must the facsimile be in order to be called a copy? To the forger of a Great Master or of paper currency it obviously needs to be nearly identical (anything else is deemed a "bad copy").
Since at present only humans have a welldeveloped system of abstract language, evidence of cross-modal transfer in infrahumans would imply that verbal mediation is not a requisite for transfer to take place. In fact, some experiments, such as those of Ettlinger (1960, 1961), failed to demonstrate cross-modal transfer of training in monkeys. Ettlinger reported that rhesus monkeys, trained to discriminate visually between different shapes and different sizes, failed to demonstrate any gains during subsequent training when the stimuli were presented tactually.
Mention has already been made of the fact that auditory intervals appear to be slightly longer than visual intervals of the identical real duration (Behar & Bevan, 1961; Goldstone & Goldfarb, 1963; S. S. Stevens & Greenbaum, 1966). 5. 5. To both ear and eye, the perceived duration of a stimulus grows just about in proportion to its physical duration. But any given physical duration seems longer when heard than when seen. 33 PHYSICAL DURATION (SEC) events (Goldstone & Goldfarb, 1963). The magnitude of this curious effect appears to depend somewhat on the number of sensory elements that fill the interval: The larger the number of sensory elements, the longer the interval appears to last (Buffardi, 1971).