ABSTRACT
There are many views concerning intermodality interactions in spatial localization. Warren (1970), for example, argued that auditory information is mapped with visual information, an idea which goes back to Boring (1926), who stated that auditory localization in most observers consists of a visual imagery of the whole scene. Another point of view is that of Pick (1974), who postulated that stimulus information about certain aspects of space, no matter from which sensory system it is extracted, is encoded in a form particularly relevant to visual perception. This position stresses the dominance of vision. A more event-related perspective is taken up by Welch & Warren (1980) who emphasize that in cases of intersensory discrepancy the perceptual system tries to maintain a perceptual experience consonant with an unitary event. Here, a dominance of any sensory modality is not preferred per se.
