Brain region responsible for speech illusion identified; Study explains how visual cues disrupt speech perception
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 17:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Watching lips move is key to accurately hearing what someone says. The McGurk Effect, an auditory phenomenon in which viewing lips moving out of sync with words creates other words, has been known since the 1970s; now researchers have pinpointed the brain region responsible for it.