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Read my lips: Using multiple senses in speech perception (Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2009 |
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When someone speaks to you, do you see what they are saying? We tend to think of speech as being something we hear, but recent studies suggest that we use a variety of senses for speech perception - that the brain treats ...
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Sound adds speed to visual perception
Aug 12, 2008 |
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The traditional view of individual brain areas involved in perception of different sensory stimuli—i.e., one brain region involved in hearing and another involved in seeing—has been thrown into doubt in recent years. A new ...
Touch helps make the connection between sight and hearing
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Mar 19, 2009 |
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The sense of touch allows us to make a better connection between sight and hearing and therefore helps adults to learn to read. This is what has been shown by the team of Édouard Gentaz, CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire ...
How our senses combine to give us a better view of the world
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Nov 12, 2008 |
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From a young age we are taught about the five senses and how they help us to explore our world. Although each sense seems to be its own entity, recent studies have indicated that there is actually a lot of overlap and blending ...
How 'nature's ultimate sensory machines' integrate sight and smell
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Feb 14, 2008 |
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“Flies are nature’s ultimate sensory machines, outperforming any human-engineered devices,” said Mark Frye of the University of California, Los Angeles. Adult fruit flies can distinguish small differences in odor concentration ...
Looming sounds boost visual perception
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it’s the sound of a speeding car approaching from out of the blue, or the faint echo of footsteps following you along a dark street, such looming sounds not only make our ears prick ...
How You Feel the World Impacts How You See It
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2009 |
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In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects -- like rocks -- appear to drift upward. MIT neuroscientists have found that ...
Sight, Sound Processed Together and Earlier than Previously Thought
Oct 30, 2007 |
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The area of the brain that processes sounds entering the ears also appears to process stimulus entering the eyes, providing a novel explanation for why many viewers believe that ventriloquists have thrown their voices to ...
Sense and sensibility in short-term memory
Feb 20, 2007 |
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More than three centuries ago, Sir Isaac Newton reflected on the similarities between the sense of hearing and the sense of sight. Newton’s speculations were impossible to test scientifically, until now. A novel Brandeis ...
Listening to music can change the way you judge facial emotions
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 06, 2009 |
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A research project led by Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya at Goldsmiths, University of London has shown that it is possible to influence emotional evaluation of visual stimuli by listening to musical excerpts before the evaluation.
Wired for sound: How the brain senses visual illusions
Apr 11, 2007 |
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In a study that could help reveal how illusions are produced in the brain's visual cortex, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have found new evidence of rapid integration of auditory and visual sensations in the brain. ...
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