In Experiments on the McGurk Effect, Participants Watch Mouths Talk

question 60

Multiple Choice

In experiments on the McGurk effect, participants watch mouths talk, but hear an audio track that has been changed so it does not match what they see the mouths doing.The typical finding is that ______.

• A)the visual stimuli, that is, the moving mouth, influences what people report hearing
• B)in speech perception, the auditory mode is dominant, and speech perception is strictly a product of what is heard
• C)the visual and the auditory perceptions interfere, rendering the stimuli incomprehensible
• D)the participants attribute what they hear to the mouth in question, affecting their visual perception

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