From: Karen Rand Smigrodzki (karen@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 20:31:13 MDT
After having looked at this a few more times, and found more on the effect,
it looks like there is something to it; however, since I have always had
trouble distinguishing sounds (I need to use subtitles to even American
films to catch all the dialogue) I am probably not one whose input should
count until I have listened and watched this about 100 more times. So I
would like to withdraw my comments below. ;)
--k
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Rand Smigrodzki" <karen@smigrodzki.org>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Amazing illusions
> I tried it before I knew what this was about, but the browser started
> playing the clip while I was not watching. So what I heard was
"Ba-(another
> sound after this for which I have forgotten the phonetic symbol -- close
to
> a flap, but close to retroflex R as well)-da-da-da-da-da(with the last two
> da da's being not technically describably by the phonetic symbol d." Now
> having read what the "McGurk effect" is supposed to be, I am not sold. It
> also seems strange to me that I have a masters degree in theoretical
> linguistics, and yet I was never told of this "effect".
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alejandro Dubrovsky" <s328940@student.uq.edu.au>
> To: "extropians" <extropians@extropy.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 4:20 PM
> Subject: Amazing illusions
>
>
> > Continuing on the "our brains are made of mush" series, we have the
> > McGurk effect (i suggest downloading the clip if your browser doesn't
> > cache, because you are going to want to play it a few hundred times)
> > http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html
> >
> > alejandro
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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