Sensory specificity of apparent motion

Previous reports of intermodal apparent motion claim that the various senses contribute to or are under the guidance of a single synthesizing or organizing system, a common sense, and that under proper circumstances the separate heteromodal stimuli may be combined into a novel perceptual object. Our...

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Published inJournal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance Vol. 7; no. 6; p. 1318
Main Authors Allen, P G, Kolers, P A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.12.1981
Subjects
Auditory Perception
Female
Humans
Illusions
Male
Motion Perception
Optical Illusions
Psychophysics
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Summary:Previous reports of intermodal apparent motion claim that the various senses contribute to or are under the guidance of a single synthesizing or organizing system, a common sense, and that under proper circumstances the separate heteromodal stimuli may be combined into a novel perceptual object. Our first experiment suggests that the term intermodal apparent motion has been misapplied in the past to one of the many idiosyncratic interpretations to which relatively meaningless patterns of heteromodal stimulation lend themselves. In our second experiment, we found that a properly timed visual stimulus can facilitate the perception of auditory apparent motion without its peculiarly auditory qualities of the moving percept. We find no evidence for a common or suprasensory organizing principle that integrates the separate visual and auditory stimuli.
ISSN:0096-1523
DOI:10.1037/0096-1523.7.6.1318