Greg Bryant - http://gabryant.bol.ucla.edu/
McGurk effect - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypd5txtGdGw
Scientific American Pod Cast - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=auditory-illusions-10-04-25
Quickening beat & Sound for under 20 - http://listverse.com/2008/02/29/top-10-incredible-sound-illusions/
While I thought this was pretty comical watching it in class today, I also thought it was very interesting that we can hear the same sound from two different forms of the mouth. "Fah" and "Bah" sounded exactly the same until we were looking at the motion the mouth was making. I found it very interesting that there was a relationship between sound and sight. It was also interesting that there is enough to be able to study this topic for 25 years.
I also found the McGurk effect interesting. The McGurk Effect is an auditory illusion due to the visual system taking over the perception of the way the mouth moves and the speech sounds coming out. I thought it was interesting that if you close your eyes you will hear the correct sounds but if you watch the mouth you will hear different sounds.
I listen to the McGurk effect. I also thought it was amazing how if you shut your eyes, you heard a completely different sound than you heard if your eyes were open. I wonder if this video shows that what we see always trumps what we hear within our perception.
The McGurk effect is interesting, we can hear things using our perception, when we look at his mouth moving and when we do not look at it, we can hear different sounds.
Wernicke's area in the temporal lobe is thought to be largely responsible for our ability to interpret and understand incoming language stimuli. I believe that the McGurk effect is a purely lingual phenomena, as in the only reason in works is because our brain is trying to process language rather than just a neutral voice tone. Our brain uses the cues of the face and mouth moving as well as the bodily position of the man in the video. These cues culminate into an assumption that the man is indeed talking to us, so our brain assumes any auditory stimulation coming from the man must be language. The brain operates under different rules when trying to process language than when tying to process auditory stimuli that is not language, so many factors may influence the intepretation of the stimuli. In the case of the McGurk effect it seems our brain is analyzing the way a person's lips move and is using that information to make sense of what we are hearing. It seems like there are two processes occurring, the first is interpreting sound stimuli, the second is monitoring facial movements and is adjusting our perception of sounds with reasonable assumptions from the collected facial data.
I was amazed at the McGurk effect. I couldn't believe that my visual system would take over for my hearing. I couldn't believe that simple closing my eyes would change what i was hearing.
I found the McGurk effect really interesting. This just shows the relationship between you senses. Seeing things can change your perception of your other senses which is crazy. I also found it interesting how much research this guy has done on the McGurk Effect.
I found this video to be very interesting. It is so true that our brains do a very good job in telling us what sounds we hear in the environment. At any one time we hear multiple sounds going on at once and yet we are able to put it all together. We live in a world in which we are virtually never in silence. A believe humans are now in a sense afraid of silence. This video is very interesting because of the fact that what we "see" can affect what we "hear". It blows my mind that even though we know the effect, it still works every time. This scientist has been studying this effect for over 25 years and it still gets him every time. This effect shows us that what we hear may not always be the truth, this really gets me thinking. It also shows the conflict that goes on between our senses that we never think about (atleast I dont). We tend to eaisly to always trust what we hear.
I find the McGurk effect amazing. I know that our senses interact but it's really cool to see it in action. I never really thought about how much our visual system affects our hearing but it does make some sense. I've always been able to understand people better if I'm looking at them while they're speaking.