When We Watch a Film in the Theatre, We Perceive

question 99

Multiple Choice

 When we watch a film in the theatre, we perceive the sound as coming from the actors' lips instead of from the speakers arrayed around the screen. This is probably due to

• A) the superiority of modern surround-sound systems.
• B) our use of vision to aid the localization of sound.
• C) the construction of the theatre, which is designed to reflect sounds from the back and sides of the building.
• D) our inability to localize sounds above a certain amplitude.

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