It's pretty easy to spot a badly dubbed foreign film: The sounds that you hear coming out of the actors' mouths don't seem to match up with the movements of their lips that you see. In other words, ...

This video is a brief illustration of the famous McGurk illusion, where the auditory perception of a syllable is altered by mismatched lip movements. The soundtrack is from a recording where the ...

Watching lips move is key to accurately hearing what someone says. The McGurk Effect, an auditory phenomenon in which viewing lips moving out of sync with words creates other words, has been known ...

This is the first of a three-part series of blogs concerning a lively, open-peer discussion —involving over 30 leading scientists—concerning consciousness and the brain. The conscious field is ...

We’ve all been left scratching our heads wondering how our brains could have been tricked by an optical illusion we looked at. But it turns out your sense of hearing is just as susceptible to being ...