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Artificial discrepancy was created between information about azimuth coming from different sense modalities. The resolution of this discrepancy was examined for the cases of vision and proprioception, proprioception and audition, and vision and audition. Vision biases proprioceptive and auditory judgments. Proprioception biases auditory judgments and has a small effect on visual judgments. The results suggest that the combinations of sense modalities do not behave as an integrated system and the data are interpreted as indicating that different processes are involved in the resolution of discrepant directional information from different pairs of modalities.
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Pick, H.L., Warren, D.H. & Hay, J.C. Sensory conflict in judgments of spatial direction. Perception & Psychophysics 6, 203–205 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207017
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