Space is to time as vision is to audition: seductive but misleading.
Space and time serve two perceptual functions. First, space/time forms a framework for visual and auditory events. Second, spatial and temporal change defines the properties of events and objects. It is at this second level that correspondences (i.e., mappings) between visual and auditory qualities can be hypothesized. Due to the active nature of perceiving, all such mappings illustrate the possible relations between looking and listening.
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Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996-0900.
D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D011601:Psychophysics; D013028:Space Perception; D013998:Time Perception; D014796:Visual Perception