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McGurk effect

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McGurk effect [mə′gərk i‚fekt]
(physiology)
An auditory illusion discovered by H. McGurk that demonstrates the important contribution made by visible face movements to normal speech perception.


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The McGurk Effect Harry McGurk and John MacDonald first described the McGurk Effect in their paper published in "Nature", entitled ''Hearing lips and seeing voices.
The McGurk Effect is a well-characterized example of the integration between what we see and what we hear when someone is speaking to us.
Fox, a developmental psychologist at the University of Maryland at College Park, and his colleagues tested the McGurk effect in 35 children with normal hearing and 36 who were born deaf but had received cochlear implants.
 
 
 
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