Intermodal mapping

Intermodal mapping

Intermodal mapping is the ability, inborn according to researchcite book |last=Goldstein |first=E. Bruce |title=Sensation and Perception |publisher=Wadsworth Publishing Company |date=2001 |location=USA |id=ISBN 0-534-53964-5] , to recognize stimuli using a sense different from the one it was originally presented to. This implies that stimuli are represented universally in the brain and available to all senses and need not be learned by pairing (classical conditioning).

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