“…what is essential in the sensuous-perceptible is not that which separates the senses from one another, but that which unites them; unites them among themselves; unites them with the entire (even with the non-sensuous) experience in ourselves; and with all the external world that there is to be experienced.”– Erich M. von Hornbostel
“Synesthetic design has the goal of achieving the optimal figuration of objects based upon the systematic connections between the senses.”
– Michael Haverkamp
“According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ‘sharp’ applied first to touch, then subsequently to taste (ca. 1000), visual shape (1340), and hearing (1390)”. Lawrence E. Marks, 1978, p. 190.
Marks, L. E. (1978). The unity of the senses: Interrelations among the modalities. New York, NY: Academic Press.
What is essential in the sensuous-perceptible is not that which separates the senses from one another, but that which unites them; unites them among themselves; unites them with the entire (even with the non-sensuous) experience in ourselves; and with all the external world that there is to be experienced.
– Erich von Hornbostel
“By means of the language of resemblance, sensory qualities speak to one another and, as it were, talk over their common feeling; and by the same language of resemblance, their voices carry beyond the sensory realm, invading qualities that are not primarily sensorial, again to share, in metaphor, a common feeling”
– Lawrence Marks (1978, p. 181).
Given [Külpe’s] notion [of universal suprasensory attributes], we might say that the several senses display a fundamental unity in part because a class of suprasensory attributes pertains to sensations on all modalities.
– Lawrence Marks in “The unity of the senses: Interrelations among the modalities”
“There must be [a] simple type of perceptual development, the register of concurrent variation from different organs… Them, that is, the systems are equivalent.”
– J. J. Gibson
