ArticleScientific reports2016
Skilled musicians are not subject to the McGurk effect.
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- Audiovisual Modulation in Music Perception for Musicians and Non-musicians.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Considerations in Audio-Visual Interaction Models: An ERP Study of Music Perception by Musicians and Non-musicians.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Skilled musicians are indeed subject to the McGurk effect.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Musical Expertise Affects Audiovisual Speech Perception: Findings From Event-Related Potentials and Inter-trial Phase Coherence.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Neural Mechanisms Underlying Cross-Modal Phonetic Encoding.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Enhanced sensitivity to pitch perception and its possible relation to language acquisition in autism.Autism & developmental language impairmentsReview
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Abstract
The McGurk effect is a compelling illusion in which humans auditorily perceive mismatched audiovisual speech as a completely different syllable. In this study evidences are provided that professional musicians are not subject to this illusion, possibly because of their finer auditory or attentional abilities. 80 healthy age-matched graduate students volunteered to the study. 40 were musicians of Brescia Luca Marenzio Conservatory of Music with at least 8-13 years of musical academic studies. /la/, /da/, /ta/, /ga/, /ka/, /na/, /ba/, /pa/ phonemes were presented to participants in audiovisual congruent and incongruent conditions, or in unimodal (only visual or only auditory) conditions while engaged in syllable recognition tasks. Overall musicians showed no significant McGurk effect for any of the phonemes. Controls showed a marked McGurk effect for several phonemes (including alveolar-nasal, velar-occlusive and bilabial ones). The results indicate that the early and intensive musical training might affect the way the auditory cortex process phonetic information.
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