“The eye carries information and sensations only some of which can be considered specifically and irreducibly visual (e.g. color); most others are transsensory. Likewise, the ear serves as a vehicle for information and sensations only some of which are specifically auditive (e.g., pitch and intervallic relationships), the others being, as in the case of the eye, not specific to this sense […] In the transsensorial or even metasensorial model […] the sense are channels, highways more than territories or domains.” [Michel Chion, Audio-Vision, 1994, p137]

We see and hear through a web of senses. Neurological research suggests that lived experience occurs where mind, body and world converge.

In a 2005 paper titled Why Seeing is Believing: Merging Auditory and Visual Worlds, IIana Witten and Eric Knudsen question the traditional reasoning that visual capture reflects an inherent physiological advantage that favors visual over nonvisual spatial information. The authors suggest that:

“visual capture occurs not because of any inherent advantage of visual circuitry, but because the brain integrates information optimally.”