Alliesthesia in visual and auditory sensations from environmental signals

L Brondel1, M Cabanac

  • 1Centre Européen des Sciences du Goût, UMR-CNRS 5170, 21000 Dijon, France. brondel@cesg.cnrs.fr

Physiology & Behavior
|April 3, 2007
PubMed

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