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[greatbear]

Can what we hear be determined by what we are seeing at the time? Definitely. Called the McGurk Effect, situations can arise where one's perception of a sound changes if certain visual cues conflict with what we are hearing at that instant. This clip from the BBC show Horizon demonstrates this simply, yet very effectively. Keep your ears and eyes open for this one:

Ain't that some shit? This also explains why I get a headache watching Godzilla movies and get driven crazy when the audio and video are not synced when watching programs or clips.

Comments

[mcbulldawg.livejournal.com]

Bah Bah Bah...

Fah Fah Fah

wow... LOL

[meddler-inc.livejournal.com]

How trippy.

[normalcyispasse.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is bizarre!

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

For someone with hearing difficulties (as I am), reading lips becomes second nature and even then, our hearing being what it is, shitty, we still sometimes misunderstand. :-)

That said, the illustration itself is indeed a bit trippy, and repetitive, but illustrates the point incredibly well.

[dan4behr.livejournal.com]

I work in a production control room environment with videoconferences going on around me. My whole day is spent seeing outgoing video and audio out of sync by about 7 frames per second. I'm not sure I'd know what to do with everything I watch all day in perfect sync... :?

[clintswan.livejournal.com]

that is wack

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

Great effect. He's cute too.

[gryphons-hole.livejournal.com]

Very curious. I have known for a long time that I depend on visuals to hear... if a person turns away from me in mid-sentence, I have to struggle to hear the rest of the statement...

The curious thing watching this video...? When the image changed, I heard 'fa'... but as the narrator explained it, I heard 'f-ba'... I heard the 'f' that I was seeing, but I was still hearing the 'b' as well... like some sort of a consonant diphthong or some such.

[uncle-dan-nyc.livejournal.com]

Great post - loved that