The McGurk Effect

Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University

Spoken language, a singular human achievement, relies heavily on specialized perceptual mechanisms. One important feature of language perception mechanisms is that they simultaneously rely on auditory and visual information. This mak...

Language perception?in a spoken form?benefits from face-to-face interactions, as the mouth supplies good visual information for articulating specific sounds.

For instance, in an up-close and unobstructed situation, an individual can watch their friend mention going to the beach. In this case, they use visual input?observing the movement a...