| An Illusory Illusion? The Role of Spatial Attention in the McGurk Effect (2006) | |||||||||
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| Illusory Illusion The Role Spatial Attention the McGurk Effect Hima Ekanadham Guinevere Eden Elizabeth Hoffman Center for the Study Learning Georgetown University n Accuracy s Reaction Time Impact Gaze Type Significance Shifted Maintained Gaze Impact Phoneme Pair Group Significance MGE Control Stimuli INTRODUCTION METHODS MATERIALS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES What the McGurk Effect MGE The MGE audiovisual illusion involving the inaccurate perception spoken phoneme due discrepant auditory and visual input classic MGE studies viewer perceives novel phoneme when auditory and visual inputs are discrepant he perceives when auditory dubbed onto visual can elicited from all human beings even the face variables such gender level audio visual synchrony and clarity visual presentation The role phonological perception language acquisition significant Therefore plausible that language acquisition ability impacts the degree intensity the MGE Experimental Aim determine whether manipulation another variable eye gaze direction influences MGE Why Previous studies have shown that perception another gaze directs one own attention the same space With this result mind possible that looking face whose gaze horizontally averted could reduce viewer attention toward the center the face and therefore interfere with lip reading Reduced attention the lips could decrease the visual component phonological perception and hence attenuate abolish MGE Subjects twenty native English speaking he | |||||||||
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