Specificity is always contingent on constraints: Global versus individual arrays is not the issue

Sverker Runeson, David M. Jacobs, Isabell E. K. Andersson, Kairi Kreegipuu · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2001

Stoffregen & Bardy's proposal that perceptual systems can use information defined across two or more sensory domains is valuable and urgent in its own right. However, their claim of exclusive validity for global-array information is superfluous and perpetuated for incorrect reasons. The seeming ambiguities of individual arrays emanate from failures to consider relevant ecological constraints and higher-order variables.

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