Kaiyu Qiu

From multisensory integration to synaesthesia: a boundary-preserving continuum and research framework.

Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Kaiyu Qiu, Zixiu Jiang, Ke Jiang et al.

Synaesthesia is commonly defined as an involuntary and consistent phenomenon in which stimulation in one sensory or cognitive domain elicits an additional experience in another domain. Yet definitions derived from perceptual psychology, neuroscience, aesthetics, cultural anthropology, and artistic practice often speak past one another. This article proposes a boundary-preserving conceptual...