How does the McGurk Effect happen?

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The context is, there was a video on the Internet where you had an audio and you were given 2 pairs of 2 words to read: “Green Needle” and “Brain storm”. Depending on what words you were reading, the result on what you heard would be different, Green Brain, Brain Needle, for example. How does this happen and, if possible, explain why?

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The Ben 10 toy that produces that sample (which correctly says “Brainstorm”as that is the name of the toy character) has a fairly low sample rate and a hanging frequency in the background.

Br and Gr sound similar enough to be confused if you have one in mind. Try listening for “Grainstorm” and you’ll hear it.

The spurious e’s in “Green Needle” are the result of focusing on the background frequency instead of the intended words.

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