It's the other way around - in hearing, phase is almost irrelevant. At medium frequencies, moving head by a few centimeters changes phase wand phase relationships of all frequencies - and we don't perceive it at all! Most audio synthesis methods work on variants of spectrograms and phase is approximated only later (mattering mostly for transients and rapid frequency content changes).
In images, scrambling phase yields a completely different image. A single edge will have the same spectral content as pink/brown~ish noise, but they look completely unlike one another.
In images, scrambling phase yields a completely different image. A single edge will have the same spectral content as pink/brown~ish noise, but they look completely unlike one another.