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Multi-sensory processing facilitates perception but direct perception of global invariants remains unproven

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Lawrence Warwick-Evans
Lawrence Warwick-Evans*
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychology, The University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom http://www.soton.ac.uk/~psyweb/staffpages/lawe/lawe.html
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lawe@soton.ac.uk
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Abstract:

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The existence of sensory convergence does not establish that the senses function as a single unified perceptual system. Reality is fully specified only by a one:many mapping onto the totality of energy arrays, and these provide alternative frames of reference for movement. It is therefore possible that higher order crossmodal relationships are detected by skilled perceivers, but this has not been confirmed empirically.

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Continuing Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004, pp. 891 - 892
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

Footnotes

Commentary on T. A. Stoffregen & B. G. Bardy (2001). On specification and the senses. BBS 24(2):195–261.

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Notes

1. Although the word “redundant” appears in their first description of amodal specification, the authors later (sect. 3.3.3) ackowledged that this view includes both redundant and discrepant information.