Hostname: page-component-6bb9c88b65-9c7xm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-07-22T03:54:27.841Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

“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, Norway beatrix.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 Kingdom htaw1@york.ac.uk
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

We show that Stoffregen & Bardy's arguments against theassumption of separately functioning senses have more historicalantecedents than they give credit for, and that multimodalfunctioning – primitive in perceptual and brain development – doesnot require this assumption. What is needed is evidence thatbiological organisms are indeed detecting and acting uponinformation in a multimodal (or global) array.

Information

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

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable