The McGurk Effect is yet another wonderful demonstration that our mind’s create our realities . . . what you see may affect what you hear. If we use different images and punch them over the same sound the sound actually sounds differently because the visual simuli takes precedence over the genuine audio stimuli. The brain crunches the numbers to mesh the two inputs but in doing so alters actual perception.
Watch the video for a wonderful demonstration of this phenomenon.
It doesn’t matter if you know about the effect, it still occurs.
We’ve known about the McGurk Effect since 1976 but it still eludes us, well a bit. See A Constraint-Based Explanation of the McGurk Effect http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=1228 by Paul Boersma of the University of Amsterdam for more.
Of course, as hypnotists or even simply as communicators, it is interesting to us to see how the message truly is in the mind of the perceiver and how sometimes the intended message is not the one received.
Brian
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