Alexandra Shippey

• BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
• Do face-like stimuli enhance how sight and sound interact?

What we see influences what we hear. A powerful demonstration is the McGurk illusion in which a syllable dubbed on a video of a face mouthing a different syllable is perceived as yet another sound. Such interactions are important in real conversations where we lip read to supplement hearing when listening in noisy environments.  These examples involve speech and faces, but we have demonstrated that such interactions occur for non-speech sounds and non- face objects.  In the proposed experiments we intend to explore whether these interactions are even further enhanced when these simple stimuli are presented in a face-like context.

Funded by: Experimental Psychology Society