The ventriloquism effect is a perceptual phenomenon, an instance of the broader visual capture effect, in which vision overrides hearing in locating the source of a sound. When a ventriloquist performs, audiences perceive the puppet's moving mouth as the true source of the voice rather than the ventriloquist's own mouth, because visual information about where the movement is happening dominates the auditory cues about where the sound is actually coming from, producing a single coherent, if inaccurate, perceptual experience.
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Core ClaimSpeech sounds are perceived as coming from a direction other than their true direction, due to the influence of visual stimuli from an apparent speaker. 1 Classification
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1. Ventriloquism effect, Wikipedia
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the perception of speech sounds as coming from a direction other than their true direction, due to the influence of visual stimuli from an apparent speaker.
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The ventriloquism effect is a perceptual phenomenon, an instance of the broader visual capture effect, in which vision overrides hearing in locating the source of a sound.
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