Sound and vision: Visual cortex processes auditory information, too
Monday, May 26, 2014 - 19:31
in Mathematics & Economics
"Seeing is believing," so the idiom goes, but new research suggests vision also involves a bit of hearing too. "So, for example, if you are in a street and you hear the sound of an approaching motorbike, you expect to see a motorbike coming around the corner. If it turned out to be a horse, you'd be very surprised," researchers said.