PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mcgurk Effect, Infrasound, Cochlea
11 Nov 2016
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Our sense of reality is made in the brain. If you were to perceive reality as it is out there, you would not recognize it at all. Your experience of the world is simulated by your brain. Our sense of realty has little to do with what is out there, but more regarding what is happening between your ears; external world does not equal what your brain processes. The physical stimuli that make up the world are being changed into the language that the brain needs to interpret it [because obviously your brain does not see light] The brain turns electrochemical signals into something meaningful through a process that seems effortless. The mcgurk effect an example of multimodal integration. Auditory stimulus has the speaker saying baba". When the observer has eyes closed they will hear ba". Observing watching and listening hears dada" which is the midpoint between ga" and. How we construct our representation of the external world.
