# Do things look the way they feel? **Opening (not a real abstract):** Human perceivers can use vision and touch co-operatively in discerning the spatial features of nearby objects: for example, cross-modal comparisons by mature perceivers of the shapes of seen objects with felt ones are just as accurate as intramodal visual-visual and haptic-haptic identifications (Norman et al. 2004). In this respect we have a multimodal grasp of perceivable space: visual and tactile percepts can be compared in this way only because we recognize them as two modes of awareness of a single set of spatial features. But what accounts for this? Is it something we must learn to do, or is it due to something intrinsically common at the level of perceptual appearance? To sharpen this question, compare the way we perceive events as ordered and extended in time. Anyone who can say whether two tones are played simultaneously or **Authors:** [[JOHN SCHWENKLER]]