Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The interesting phenomenon during Last Night's visit to the V clinic... I'm kidding, it's not the V clinic... I'm helping with a study on brain waves, remember? The phd candidate is searching for the brain difference between aspergers and normals... is normals a pluralable noun?

... While there, with a constantly moving head within the magnetoencephelograph helmet, I experienced the phenonmenon of hearing lips and seeing voices... Professor McGurk's studies in the 1970's... ?? I have to look this up but the sound of the word changed as I looked at a video of the speaking of it run backwards... basically from a ba sound to a cla sound...the other studies were by Professor Tallon-Baudry and Professor Peter J. Lang...

Seeing a thing while it is making a noise changes the way we hear the noise the thing is making... that is ONE way to put it....the experiment here consisted of showing the video then reversing the video of the same spoken word. it sounded like a different word...

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