Mind & EverydayFact

Your eyes can decide which syllable you hear.

Harry McGurk and John MacDonald showed in Nature in 1976: hear "ba-ba" while watching lips form "ga-ga" and you perceive "da-da". Your brain fuses image and sound into a single percept. Even researchers who have studied it for decades still experience it.

Useful: It explains why watching someone's mouth makes bad audio suddenly intelligible.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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