Neither touch nor vision: sensory substitution as artificial synaesthesia?
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biology & Philosophy
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0169-3867,1572-8404
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-013-9377-z