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This document appears to be page 114 of a book or manuscript entitled 'Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?'. It discusses cognitive science concepts, specifically the 'McGurk Effect' (audio-visual conflict) and perfect pitch in Chinese children. It includes a still image from a BBC Two video. The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' Bates stamp, indicating it was produced as part of a congressional investigation.
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Man shown in two side-by-side frames with 'BBC TWO' logo, presumably demonstrating the McGurk effect.
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| Chinese children | Subject of study |
Mentioned in the context of learning piano young and retaining perfect pitch.
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| BBC TWO |
Logo visible in the top left corner of the embedded image.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Inferred from the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015804'.
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"An astonishing 93% of these children develop and retain perfect pitch throughout their lives."Source
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"The McGurk effect shows this."Source
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"Modern research shows we don’t take a complete picture of the world like a camera but rather parse the image into its constituent parts on the fly."Source
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114 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
[BBC TWO Logo]
McGurk Effect; Go to the Website and Watch the Linked Video
Chinese children tend to learn the piano very young, they don’t lose the absolute part of pitch. An astonishing 93% of these children develop and retain perfect pitch throughout their lives.
There are many cross connections between the audio and video processing systems. At parties you often can’t hear speakers clearly because of the background noise. Watching their lips will help comprehension, but which sense wins if there is conflict between the two? The McGurk effect shows this.
To test the effect, go to the website, watch the video and see if you can distinguish when a speaker talking normally and when he is making the mouth movement of another sound. There is a winner. Try it for yourself; check out the link on my website.
Once upon a time people imagined the brain was like a camera forming an image of the world, but if this were the case there would be a paradox. Who is looking at the image in our brain to make sense of it? Modern research shows we don’t take a complete picture of the world like a camera but rather parse the image into its constituent parts on the fly.
If someone asks, “Which side of the house is the tree on?” your brain parses the question and compares it with the image map in your mind’s eye. What is the image composed of: trees, houses, sky, grass? Your brain manipulates the linguistic question about the relationship of elements and matches it with the visio-spatial understanding of the image, allowing you to answer the question. You might not have to answer
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