Department of Experimental Psychology and the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
Neuroscientist. 2012 Jun;18(3):208-15. doi: 10.1177/1073858411402835. Epub 2011 May 12.
In the study of basic and high-level cognitive functions, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers have tended to focus on normal psychological processes and on deficits in these processes, whereas the study of exceptional abilities has been largely neglected. Here the authors emphasize the value of researching exceptional abilities. They make the case that studies of exceptional representations, such as of time, number, and space in synesthesia, can provide us with insights regarding the nature of the neurocognitive mechanisms of these dimensions, as well as their developmental, evolutionary, and cultural origins.
在基础和高级认知功能的研究中，神经科学家、心理学家和哲学家倾向于关注正常的心理过程和这些过程中的缺陷，而对特殊能力的研究则在很大程度上被忽视了。在这里，作者强调了研究特殊能力的价值。他们认为，对异常表象的研究，如联觉中的时间、数字和空间，可以让我们深入了解这些维度的神经认知机制的本质，以及它们的发展、进化和文化起源。
