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    It is not the case that Natural signs can trigger cross-modal associations, as Herder argued in 'Sculpture' (1778): touch and vision share expressive content through embodied experience.

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    • 1.Touch and vision detect fundamentally different physical properties (pressure/texture vs. wavelength), limiting true cross-modal content sharing.
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    • 2.Reported associations between touch and vision may reflect learned metaphor and language rather than natural embodied connection.
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    • 3.Herder's 18th-century introspection lacks neuroscientific rigor; contemporary evidence shows modality-specific processing dominates integration.
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    • 1.Blind individuals navigate tactile sculpture and report visual imagery, demonstrating that touch genuinely accesses expressive content.
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    • 2.Mirror neurons fire identically during tactile and visual observation, suggesting embodied neural overlap between sensory modalities.
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    • 3.Children learn emotional meaning (softness=comfort, hardness=threat) through simultaneous touch-vision pairing before language develops.
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