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Week 10

Submitted by Lisa B. on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 4:36pm.
I thought that the best demonstration of speech perception was the McGurk effect.  Is he saying "ba ba" or "da da"? During the YouTube demonstration I heard "ba ba" when my eyes were closed and "da da" when they were not closed. This was exactly what McGurk and MacDonald described in their paper, that hearing and vision involved more than one sensory modality. Furthermore, now that I know that senses function from the brain and not body I am better able to understand other topics in neurobiology. For example, dreams are a construction of the brain and may be a combination of more than one sensory modality. Also, I would like to further explore our social sense in relation to the construction of the brain. 

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