Sunday, May 31, 2009

Stretching Your Mouth Affects What You Hear


Filed under: Language and the brain

Neuroscience textbooks typically portray the five senses as separate entities, but in the real world the senses frequently interact, as anyone who has tried to enjoy dinner with a stuffy nose can attest. Hearing and vision seem similarly connected, the most famous example being the “McGurk effect,” where visual cues, such as moving lips, affect how people hear speech. And now new research shows that touch can influence speech perception, too.

Full article: Scientific American


See also:

>  Lip-read me now, hear me better later
>  Read my lips: Using multiple senses in speech perception
>  Feeling your words: Hearing with your face
>  The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages
>  ‘Tower of Babel’ translator made

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