THE VIDEO SHELF · mcgurk effect
Try this bizarre audio illusion! 👁️👂😮 - BBC
A BBC Horizon clip demonstrating the McGurk effect, where the same audio sounds like different syllables depending on the mouth movements you see. It shows that people integrate visual speech information into what they hear.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as the standard demonstration that the brain reinterprets perception, in threads on speech, AI audio and illusions.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- BBC
- Topic
- mcgurk effect
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 15
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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"People already lie to themselves" The most compelling illustration I've seen of this is the McGurk Affect[1]. [1] [VIDEO]
lunarscape on Hacker News · 2012-07
In Why You Won’t See Hard AR Anytime SoonIf you like this sort of thing, and haven't heard of the McGurk Effect before, take a look at this: [VIDEO] .
kkylin on Hacker News · 2017-08
In Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion?
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