Four Auditory-Visual Differences

The first relevant research done by Marks (1987) focused on the weight of crossmodal correspondence on the pitch/size pairing that were dependable on the context. The highest levels of cross modal correspondence effects happen when there is a highest and the lowest intensity comparison on both the visual and auditory domain (Marks, 1987). The finding of this research was that four auditory-visual comparisons such as pitch-lightness, pitch-brightness, loudness-brightness, and pitch-form respond in terms of the speed and accuracy of perceptual discrimination. Discrimination is at its highest when the two stimuli match depending on the similar intensity of visual and auditory stimuli. For instance, high-pitched tones and bright lights both share