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“The assumption of separate senses”: Pervasive? Perhaps – Persuasive? Hardly!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Beatrix Vereijken  and
H.T. A (John) Whiting
Beatrix Vereijken
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7034, Norwaybeatrix.vereijken@svt.ntnu.no www.svt.ntnu.no/psy/eatrix.Vereijken
H.T. A (John) Whiting
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdomhtaw1@york.ac.uk
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Abstract

We show that Stoffregen & Bardy's arguments against the assumption of separately functioning senses have more historical antecedents than they give credit for, and that multimodal functioning – primitive in perceptual and brain development – does not require this assumption. What is needed is evidence that biological organisms are indeed detecting and acting upon information in a multimodal (or global) array.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 242 - 243
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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