Visual capture, also known as the ventriloquist effect, is the dominance of vision over the other senses in forming a perception. Visual information can override what another sense, such as hearing or touch, is conveying, so the perceived environment does not match the actual physical stimuli. It lets a person misjudge the location of a sound, such as perceiving a screen actor's voice as coming from the moving lips rather than from the actual loudspeaker, because the visual system supplies more spatially precise information than hearing does.
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1. Wikipedia: Visual capture
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the dominance of vision over other sense modalities in creating a percept
2. Visual capture (Wikipedia)
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This phenomenon was first demonstrated by Frenchman J. Tastevin in 1937
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