The McGurk Effect

More on the subject of the limitations of human physiology... Just ran
across this great little segment of a BBC show called Horizon, on The
McGurk Effect and thought it went nicely with the counting test and
optical effects, but thought it deserved it's own thread. Watch your
ears lie, despite your best efforts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypd5t...layer_embedded

Pretty scary to think about how our brains literally transform
information into what it *thinks it's supposed to be processing in
situations with conflicting inputs. :|

-Paul

Damn, I thought it was going to be something to do with Coach McGurk
from Home Movies.......

Whoa, mama! That is amazing. Brain 1, McElligott nil.

Spooky! Not only we can't trust our eyes we can neither trust our
ears!

Ramy


On Nov 2, 9:17*am, sisu1a wrote:
More on the subject of the limitations of human physiology... Just ran
across this great little segment of a BBC show called Horizon, on The
McGurk Effect and thought it went nicely with the counting test and
optical effects, but thought it deserved it's own thread. Watch your
ears lie, despite your best efforts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypd5t...layer_embedded

Pretty scary to think about how our brains literally transform
information into what it *thinks it's supposed to be processing in
situations with conflicting inputs. * :|

-Paul

On Nov 3, 11:04*pm, Ramy wrote:
Spooky! Not only we can't trust our eyes we can neither trust our
ears!

What's spooky is a professor from UCR studied this for 25yrs hope he
did this on his own time. Only in Kaleefornia!

What's spooky is a professor from UCR studied this for 25yrs hope he
did this on his own time. Only in Kaleefornia!

Meh... doesn't make it any less amazing how the the human mind does
not process the the fact I used the the word "the" twice each time in
this sentence.

Glidergeek's comment is probably similar to some in Ohio in the
1890s: "Those silly Wright brothers! Flying kites and studying birds
- how frivolous and wasteful!"

Moral - just because you can't see the point in something doesn't
always mean that it's useless.

-John

On Nov 4, 10:01 am, glidergeek wrote:
What's spooky is a professor from UCR studied this for 25yrs hope he
did this on his own time. Only in Kaleefornia!

On Nov 4, 2:31*pm, jcarlyle wrote:
Glidergeek's comment is probably similar to some in Ohio in the
1890s: *"Those silly Wright brothers! Flying kites and studying birds
- how frivolous and wasteful!"

Moral - just because you can't see the point in something doesn't
always mean that it's useless.

-John

On Nov 4, 10:01 am, glidergeek wrote:

What's spooky is a professor from UCR studied this for 25yrs hope he
did this on his own time. Only in Kaleefornia!

Try to say: buck, buck, buck...

Why cheer for a loser?

On Nov 4, 11:41 pm, RRK wrote:
Try to say: buck, buck, buck...