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This experiment compares two hypotheses concerning the relation between auditory anti, visual direction. The first, the “common space” hypothesis, is that both auditory and visual direction are represented on a single underlying direction dimension, so that comparisons between auditory and visual direction may be made directly. The second, the “disjunct space” hypothesis, is that there are two distinct internal dimensions, one for auditory direction and one for visual direction, and that comparison between auditory and visual direction involves a translation between these two dimensions. Both these hypotheses are explicated, using a signal detection theory framework, and evidence is provided for the common space hypothesis.
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The authors are grateful to Eric Heinemann for comments on earlier drafts of this paper, and to Jean-Claude Falmagne for a discussion of some of the issues involved here. We are also grateful to V. R. Carlson and to the reviewer for their critical comments and suggestions, which led to clarification of the common space concept and made us aware of its use in other areas of the literature.
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Auerbach, C., Sperling, P. A common auditory-visual space” Evidence for its reality. Perception & Psychophysics 16, 129–135 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203265
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