Your brain conjures noises that aren't there
It's wild how your brain mixes senses to create a world you can understand
Your eyes are actually lying to your ears right now
Gut call — how extreme does this actually get?
Reality tends to overshoot. Pick your ceiling.
- It's wild how your brain mixes senses to create a world you can understand
- Even after you learn how the trick works, you cannot stop it.
- This explains why talking over a bad cell phone connection is easier than watching a dubbed movie with poor lip-syncing.
The McGurk Effect proves that vision is so dominant it can override your physical hearing. If a video shows a person saying 'ga-ga' while the actual audio plays 'ba-ba,' you will likely hear 'da-da.'
Your brain refuses to accept the contradiction between what it sees and what it hears. Instead of choosing one over the other, it merges the two signals into a hallucinated middle ground.
This happens because humans are hardwired to lip-read even when they don't realize they are doing it. We use the shape of the mouth to categorize the muffled or complex frequencies of speech.
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