The Unity of the Senses

By L. Marks. 1978

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “…attributes are detected by our sensory systems, they are perceived as belonging to perceptually coherent and meaningful objects and events rather than as collections of unrelated sensations (Gibson, 1966; Maier & Schneirla, 1964; Marks, 1978; Ryan, 1940; Stein & Meredith, 1993; Werner, 1973).”
Differential Ineffability and the Senses (2014, background): “Galileo posited four such primary qualities (size, shape, quantity and motion), to which Locke added solidity, while Kant held that space, time, number and quantity are suprasensory qualities (see Marks, 1978, pp. 12–13).”
Sound induces perceptual reorganization of an ambiguous motion display in human infants (2003, background): “This raises a fundamental question for behavioral neuroscience: how are distinct sensory inputs integrated into unified perceptual experiences (Marks, 1978)? Research has shown that intersensory integration relies heavily on the spatio-temporal correspondences that normally help to bind the distinct”
Infants’ responsiveness to the auditory and visual attributes of a sounding/moving stimulus (1992, background): “Adults are known to possess the ability to unify heteromodal inputs on the basis of equivalent attributes (Marks, 1978; Welch & Warren, 1986).”
The development of intersensory temporal perception: an epigenetic systems/limitations view. (2000, background): “Perhaps the most dramatic example of intersensory integration is synesthesia--a phenomenon reported by a small minority of individuals who, following stimulation in a given modality, experience sensations in other modalities even though no physical stimulation in those other modalities is presented ”
Synesthesia: Strong and Weak (2001, background): “Despite this difference, it appears that strong and weak synesthetes share an understanding of how visual and auditory dimensions are related (Marks, 1978).”
Infants' perception of the audible, visible, and bimodal attributes of multimodal syllables. (2000, background): “tion has focused on the detection of intersensory equivalence (or intermodal invariants) partly because of the influence of the direct perception view (Gibson, 1969) and partly because the detection of intersensory equivalence is the most obvious of the various forms of intersensory interactions (Ma”
The Biological Implausibility of the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy & What It Means for the Study of Infancy (2011, background): “Although synaesthesia is a rare case of unusual multisensory perception in adults (Cytowic, 2003; Marks, 1978), it is special because synaesthetic experiences appear to be automatic and, thus, obligatory.”