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SUBMITTER: Ludwig VU
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3251154 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ludwig Vera U VU Adachi Ikuma I Matsuzawa Tetsuro T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20111205 51
Humans share implicit preferences for certain cross-sensory combinations; for example, they consistently associate higher-pitched sounds with lighter colors, smaller size, and spikier shapes. In the condition of synesthesia, people may experience such cross-modal correspondences to a perceptual degree (e.g., literally seeing sounds). So far, no study has addressed the question whether nonhuman animals share cross-modal correspondences as well. To establish the evolutionary origins of cross-modal ...[more]