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1. Unimodal Approaches to the Study of Perception 1. Unimodal Approaches to the Study of Perception
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2. Some Varieties of Multimodality 2. Some Varieties of Multimodality
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3. Crossmodal Illusions 3. Crossmodal Illusions
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4. Explaining Crossmodal Illusions 4. Explaining Crossmodal Illusions
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4.1. Multimodal Organizing Principles 4.1. Multimodal Organizing Principles
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4.2. Crossmodal Triggers and Mechanisms 4.2. Crossmodal Triggers and Mechanisms
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4.3. Why Multimodal Interaction? 4.3. Why Multimodal Interaction?
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5. Conflict, Content, and Phenomenology 5. Conflict, Content, and Phenomenology
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5.1. Why Conflict Matters 5.1. Why Conflict Matters
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5.2. Common Content 5.2. Common Content
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5.3. Shared Phenomenology 5.3. Shared Phenomenology
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6. The Senses 6. The Senses
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6.1. Are the Senses Modular? 6.1. Are the Senses Modular?
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6.2. Individuating the Senses 6.2. Individuating the Senses
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7. Multimodality in Perception 7. Multimodality in Perception
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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References References
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5 Perception and Multimodality
Get accessCasey O'Callaghan is professor of philosophy at Washington University in St Louis. He is author of Sounds (Oxford 2007), Beyond Vision (Oxford 2017), and A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception (Oxford 2019).
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Published:01 May 2012
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Abstract
The article presents some findings concerning multimodality, and the philosophical implications of these findings. One of the findings is that crossmodal illusions show that perception involves interactions among processes associated with different modalities. Patterns of crossmodal bias and recalibration reveal the organization of multimodal perceptual processes. Multimodal interactions obey intelligible principles, they resolve conflicts, and they enhance the reliability of perception. Multimodal processes also demonstrate a concern across the senses for common features and individuals, for several reasons such as the intermodal biasing and recalibration responsible for crossmodal illusions requires that information from sensory stimulation associated with different senses be taken to be commensurable. The commensurable information from different senses shares, or traces to, a common source since conflict resolution requires a common subject matter. One important lesson of multimodal effects is that an analog of the correspondence problem within a modality holds between modalities. Spatio-temporal unity, objectual unity, and integration are tied to the capacity to detect constancies and solve correspondence problems across modalities. Solving crossmodal correspondence problems requires a common modal or multimodal code that is shared among modalities.
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