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McGurk Effect The McGurk Effect is a visual/auditory phenomenon that occurs when watching lips move and hearing sounds that sound like speech. A strange feedback loop is created whereby if the speech does not match the lip movement, even if the speech is perfectly clear, the brain will combine the lip movement and sound, and come up with sounds halfway in between what is heard and the lip movement seen. Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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Using optical projection tomography (OPT), researchers have produced 3-D images of fruit-fly brains in various stages of degeneration. The hope of doing this is using the imagery, mapped to the areas of fruitfly brains in all three dimensio...
(23/07/2009)
Back on April 1, Google instigated a prank that allowed users to see an effect on Google Chrome that looked like 3D. It was actually pretty cool. But it seems as though that wasn't the only foray into 3D for Google. Apparently, the folks a...
(06/05/2009)
It is often said that music is the language of emotions. Simply, we are moved by music. But can these musically induced emotions arising through the auditory sense influence our interpretation of emotions arising through other senses (eg vi...
(23/01/2014)
Silicon-based electronics has certain limits, in the physical sense of the word: this type of circuit can never become “nano” because of the physical laws governing the flow of electrons. This imposes a halt to the process of miniaturizatio...
(18/09/2009)
South Korean scientists said Friday they had demonstrated a spin-injected field effect transistor in a high-mobility InAs heterostructure. Researchers at the state-run Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) said the...
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