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 First Described Year 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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One example of visual capture is known as the ventriloquism effect which refers to 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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This phenomenon was first demonstrated by Frenchman J. Tastevin in 1937
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