McGurk effect in non-English listeners: few visual effects for Japanese subjects hearing Japanese syllables of high auditory intelligibility

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 90; no. 4 Pt 1; p. 1797
• Main Authors: Sekiyama, K, Tohkura, Y
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.1991
• Subjects: Adult; Attention; Female; Humans; Illusions; Japan; Language; Lipreading; Perceptual Masking; Phonetics; Speech Intelligibility; Speech Perception; Japan

The McGurk effect is a phenomenon that demonstrates a perceptual fusion between auditory and visual (lip-read) information in speech perception under the condition of audio-visual discrepancy, created by dubbed video tapes. This paper investigated whether or not the McGurk effect could be extended t...