The McGurk Effect
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The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound. If a person is presented with a video of a speaker saying a syllable while an audio recording of a different syllable is played, the perceived syllable is often a third, intermediate syllable.
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The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound. If a person is presented with a video of a speaker saying a syllable while an audio recording of a different syllable is played, the perceived syllable is often a third, intermediate syllable.
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When the visual lip movements and auditory speech are inconsistent, the brain integrates the two to produce a third perception (e.g., hearing 'ba' while seeing 'ga' results in perceiving 'da'), indicating that speech perception is multimodal.
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