"The assumption of separate senses": Pervasive? Perhaps - Persuasive? Hardly!

Authors
Vereijken, B Whiting, HTA
Citation
B. Vereijken et Hta. Whiting, "The assumption of separate senses": Pervasive? Perhaps - Persuasive? Hardly!, BEHAV BRAIN, 24(2), 2001, pp. 242
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology,"Neurosciences & Behavoir
Journal title
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
ISSN journal
0140525X → ACNP
Volume
24
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(200104)24:2<242:"AOSSP>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
We show that Stoffregen & Bardy's arguments against the assumption of separ ately functioning senses have more historical antecedents than they give cr edit for, and that multimodal functioning-primitive in percept ai and brain development-does not require Iis assumption. What is needed is evidence th at biological organisms are indeed detecting and acting upon information in a multimodal (or global) array.