The temporal unity of multimodal audio–visual experiences seems to be stronger than their spatial unity. In particular, when one has an ordinary audio–visual experience, one is able to recognize that there is a non-visual part of space—behind one's head—but one is not aware of purely visual or auditory parts of time. This paper investigates the spatiotemporal unity of audio–visual experiences by applying a distinction between experiential contents and experiential structures, that is, relatively invariant ways of organizing content. General structural factors that determine multimodal unity are identified, which are also likely to be relevant to other types of multimodal experiences. In particular, it is shown that certain relationships between so-called ‘limitation structural boundaries’ lead to a limited multimodal unity where one is aware of unimodal parts of a multimodal experiential structure.

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视听体验的结构统一

多模态视听体验的时间统一性似乎比它们的空间统一性更强。特别是，当一个人有一个普通的视听体验时，他能够认识到空间有一个非视觉的部分——在他的脑后——但一个人没有意识到时间的纯粹视觉或听觉部分。本文通过区分体验内容和体验结构，即相对不变的内容组织方式，研究了视听体验的时空统一性。确定了决定多模态统一的一般结构因素，这些因素也可能与其他类型的多模态体验相关。特别是，它表明，所谓的 “限制性结构边界 ”之间的某些关系导致了一个有限的多模态统一，在这个统一中，人们意识到了多模态经验结构的单模态部分。