{"id":8531,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neonatal_synesthesia\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:43","slug":"neonatal_synesthesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neonatal_synesthesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Neonatal synesthesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/synesthesia-test.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/synesthesia-test.com?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Synesthesia<\/a>&nbsp;isa clinical condition in which a sensation in one sense modality triggers anarbitrarily related sensation in another (or the same) modality. &nbsp;Somedevelopmental theorists (notably Maurer, Gibson, &amp; Spector, 2012, see Harvey, 2013, for some critical comments) have argued thatperception is synesthetic in early life on the basis that newborns likelypossess much more in the way of synaptic connectivity between sensory brainareas, arguing that this is later pruned back through development as a resultof experience.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cross-modal_coordination\">Cross-modal coordination<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_differentiation\">Developmental differentiation<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_integration\">Developmental integration<\/a>, Experience-dependent process<\/p>\n<p>Harvey, J.P. (2013). Sensory perception: Lessonsfrom synesthesia. <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Yale Journal of Biologyand Medicine<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">86<\/span>, 203-216.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maurer, D.,Gibson, L. C., &amp; Spector, F. (2012). Infant synaesthesia: Newinsights into the development of multisensory perception. In A. J. Bremner, D.J. Lewkowicz, &amp; C. Spence (Eds.), <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Multisensorydevelopment <\/span>(pp. 229-250)<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">. <\/span>Oxford,UK: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synesthesia&nbsp;isa clinical condition in which a sensation in one sense modality triggers anarbitrarily related sensation in another (or the same) modality. &nbsp;Somedevelopmental theorists (notably Maurer, Gibson, &amp; Spector, 2012, see Harvey, 2013, for some critical comments) have argued thatperception is synesthetic in early life on the basis that newborns likelypossess much more in the way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neonatal_synesthesia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neonatal synesthesia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}