Via Metacafe, here's an audio/visual illusion involving reading lips and seeing voices (nothing to do with synaesthesia) called the McGurk Effect.
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We've discussed synesthesia many times before on Cognitive Daily -- it's the seemingly bizarre phenomenon when one stimulus (e.g. a sight or a sound) is experienced in multiple modalities (e.g. taste, vision, or colors). For example, a person might experience a particular smell whenever a given…
There was plenty of interest in yesterday's audio-visual illusion. In case you missed it, I'll post it again here:
Play the movie with the sound turned up. If the illusion works, then you'll see a dot flash twice, accompanied by two beeps. But actually the dot only flashes once. Unfortunately, we'…
Just in: the 2010 Imagine Science Films Festival's Nature Scientific Merit award, given to "a short film that exemplifies science in narrative filmmaking in a compelling, credible and inspiring manner," is An Eyeful of Sound, a short film about audio-visual synaesthesia by Samantha Moore.
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What sensory cues do we rely on during the perception of speech? Primarily, of course, speech perception involves auditory cues - we pay close attention to the sounds generated by the speaker. Less obviously, the brain also picks up subtle visual cues, such as the movements of the speakers mouth…
Curious. All I heard was bah-bah-bah. In the video-only, I could not tell what the speaker was producing. He was simply opening his mouth.
Likewise, I heard "bah, bah, bah" regardless of what was going on in the video. Interesting.
Another vote for Bah-bah-bah here.
Another vote for ba ba ba....