What, if anything, can be considered an amodal sensory dimension?

ABSTRACT: The term 'amodal' is a key topic in several different research fields across experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including in the areas of developmental and perception science. However, despite being regularly used in the literature, the term means something different to the researchers working in the different contexts. Many developmental scientists conceive of the term as referring to those perceptual qualities, such as, for example, the size and shape of an object, that can be picked up by multiple senses (e.g., vision and touch potentially providing information relevant to the same physical stimulus/property). However, the amodal label is also widely used in the case of those qualities that are not directly sensory, such as, for example, numerosity, rhythm, synchrony, e

SUBMITTER: Spence C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11543734 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature