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McGurk effect - Auditory Illusion - BBC Horizon Clip
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A two-minute BBC Horizon clip demonstrating the McGurk effect, where what you see of a speaker's mouth changes the sound you hear.
Recommended as a quick demo of vision overriding hearing, and cited as an example of perception producing confident wrong answers.
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