Separate sensory modalities fuse into one coherent perception unless cues conflict

Evidence

In multimodal perception, the peripheral sensory mechanisms work relatively independently, but these partial percepts are fused together into a coherent internal representation, unless conflicting cues leave them apart or the dominating sensory organ overwhelms the weaker evidence. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1465

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names and defines multimodal perception and the fusion of independent sensory partial percepts.