McGurk Effect (with explanation)

[MissManiacTheMad]

we did this in phoniatrics, and I'm tired with revising so I thought I'd look it up on youtube for no very good reason =)

[bloodspilla55]

I just heard 'AAA' 'AAA' 'AAA'

[xxfrozenflower]

Huh... I heard 'ba', and I was completely lost when the guy said that the 'right' answer is actually 'da'. ^^;

[riKringkast]

I ended up here via the Skeptic's Guide to the universe podcast. Did you?

[IamJustinAdam3]

I heard ba...

[fodete01]

well i heard pa pa pa... who-the-fuck effect are you talking about... fat doctor...

[rimodimiourgos13]

@fodete01 hahahahahahhaha me too xD

[Drkspeedy]

This video does not showcase the effect properly. Watch the video on the side from the BBC, that one works.

[woobiegirl808]

I heard bah.

[sergiu0409]

I heard "Pa Pa"

[pishykikiface]

I hear 'pa pa pa' o.O

[xmustanguyx]

do do do da da da!

[ITouchHot]

bla bla bla

[thisbemynickname]

I heard vah.

[SoulSnatchaz]

reminds me of lady gaga smh

[jmbbala]

wtf... this didn't work and without sound looked like da da da

[SoupyGeorge]

I heard ba the first time. Is it just me or does the guy saying it look like he's under a trance?

[VoltagE1337]

blaa blaa blaaa

[anlsrnvschtny]

why is the person forced not to blink? o.O

[arabslavegirl]

I heard ba ba ba. So it doesn't work on everyone.

[checkit230]

i heard un

[SzSzilard]

PA PA PA !!!! bullshit

[controllerbrain]

Americans have too much time on their hands, that's why they come up with this shit.

[Enderfiction]

It sounds like a sarcastic scream if my eyes are open.

"Ah. Ah. Ah."

If my eyes are closed, it sounds like Ba.

[harezuki2001]

@Enderfiction

Me TOO！！

[xCarmle]

I heard 'fa fa fa'. :'D

[Crozula]

It is a bad example. Heard either Ah or Ba every time on this one but other example videos i heard the strange noise that i guess sort of sounds like da.

[Virur]

I heard Ba on the first time too, i think this means we're psychologically retarded

[HearTheSmile]

Bill Nye would fuck him up.

[lokinounou]

Habba Babba ?

[AndriProductions]

I AM IMMUNE!!!!!!

[thingkinfast]

I heard ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh. Its not a good example

[ace2high]

I always heard ba on this one, soooo poor example?

[countbleck123]

It looked like he was saying lalala to me...

[NefariousNarcissist7]

I heard "What in the hell are those 6 Niggas doing at my convenience store at 2 a.m?Id better dial 911 just in case"

[kousoulides]

I heard aa aa aa..

[mysticbow]

i heard gagaga first time, then i heard bababa without looking at the screen. hahaha interesting

[VampirellaNum1]

DA DA DA, PA PA PA

[Icienacea]

Great presentation of the information, but yeah, it wasn't visually clear enough that the guy in the demonstration was making the 'g' sound. I heard 'ba' for the first time too. Watch the bearded guy's version and then come back to this haha.

[geezwhatswrongwithu]

D: i thought it was fafafa

[ellenfriis]

ga-ga-ga (am hearing impaired and rely on lip-reading) -= a mixture of ba and da (bda)

[CBshortfilms]

I did not hear DADADA or GAGAGA or whatever. It was BABABA all the time!

[ychia76]

so my question is ... if a person with sensory integration disorder ... visual and sound doesn't work together ... then what?

[Hemanguy23]

j herad pa pa pa

[rofofo2000]

how much did they pay the guy who says Da Da Da for this video?? that is easy money!!!!

[monyan8]

He's saying bda bda.

[P3lirrojo]

I heard Sex Sex every time

[JayfuzOMarley]

OH SHIT I PEEKED !

[Sutinennn]

I peeked.

[RenjiLambrusco]

i heard - 'kill john lennon......" i guess i'm a minority.

[6poolrush]

people need to find better things to do then to study something so useless within the next decade, century, perhaps millenia

[RANDOMwithaQ431]

i heard it right your suppose to close your eyes the 2nd time then it will sound like dadada/vavava/fafafa

[zaak186]

i thought that was a useless experiment.... all i heard was ba ba ba.... without the sound made the experiment more useless..... what was the illusion again? we hear differently from closing our eyes from what we see?

[Tebowski]

i just heard ba ba ba... majority my ass.

[Whipit8rapture]

Terrible, couldn't tell the difference unlike other examples.

[MarcelZager]

I just heared ba

[Mokurentate]

I heard "ah bah bah bah"

[leiasephia29]

Lady Ga Ga Ga ?

[metaknight95]

at first it sounds like "ah ah ah" but then switches to "ba ba ba"

[Annoyingthing321]

He looks like a goldfish...

[lostpianist]

I only hear ba ba ba

Left handers often perceive illusions differently

Have a look at the work of Diana Deutsch

[spartacandream]

With my eyes open it was "ah ah ah", and with them closed "ah ah bah"

[matzilla58]

i heard ah, ah, ah. not gagaga or dadada

[xxxMonaxxx1]

Hehe Janina, im Computerraum :D

[SpeedySpod]

I only hear 'ah ah ah'...all three times around...hmmm. But I've heard about the McGurk effect before - a couple of years ago, so maybe this illusion doesn't work for me any longer.

[stand2reason]

I just heard "ah". Which makes sense because I can't read lips.

[Metamorbrrr]

hmmmm i'm in minority as well..

[desbaltazar]

i wanna hear rihanna say this.. hahahaha

[desbaltazar]

LOL

[mongoloido]

AKK!

[KelseyBeePink]

I heard "uh uh uh" the first time... :S

[digeiSemtex]

right... and this mcgurk effect thing is suposed to be useful in some way?

[zolaswolf]

I heard Ba on the first time.. does this mean the effect did not work on me?

[LuvLuckLife]

@zolaswolf samehere!

[asschun]

@zolaswolf it means your visual cortex is impaired or there is miscommunication between it and your auditory speech center

[jtofgc]

@zolaswolf Same thing happened to me but different videos have worked. I think it's just an unconvincing dub.

[myprideable]

@zolaswolf this effect only works when u looks at his mouth, i heard Ba on the first time too, cuz i was looking straight at his eyes.....



[SkyMiluna]

I heard Pa pa pa pa pa O__O

[techformula]

when i think he says da i hear da,when i think he says ba,i hear ba ...creepy...

[picopallasi]

I thought it was just ah ah ah.

[mastercheats]

@picopallasi I did too at first!

[MinamuTV]

It's bababa the whole time.

[KingDavidANC]

I head ba ba ba.

[bobqzx]

I heard Ba Ba Ba the whole time

[lavigne777619]

I'm sorry science, I heard ba ba ba from the start. I think the timing was wrong so I couldn't believe it

[SM6YZC]

I heard bahbahbah... hm.. I am a wonderchild?

[klakkaros]

@SM6YZC Nope, just your brain doesn't work as well as the rest of our brains :D

[Woilem]

@SM6YZC Unfortunately no, not based on this experiment. The guy in the vid said: the majority hears dahdahdah, so there is a minority that hears dahdahdah. Perception is subjective, even sound perception.

[gsmith2000994]

@myjunkinyourtrunk6 i speak just english and hear pa pa pa so i dont think it is but could be

[rolmo6]

Ga ga Uh lalala

[branfransisco9]

i saw and heard aah aah aah everytime

[SuperKissmyblackass]

this is why the human needs all 5 senses to operate fully. People who have strokes can vouch for me.

[tencake]

@SuperKissmyblackass So ba-ba-buck off, Stevie Wonder, Helen Keller, Frankie Armstrong, Johann Sebastian Bach, Louis Braille, Andrea Bocelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Galileo, James Joyce, Heather Whitestone, Lance Allred, Guillaume Amontons, Gertrude Ederle, Lou Ferrigno, Georgia Horsley, Joseph Pulitzer, Ronnie Milsap and your semi-operational lives.

[myjunkinyourtrunk6]

i heard pa pa pa, i speak multiple languages. i wonder if that has any effect.

[chiken787]

i heard er er er with eyes open

[LittleRainbowMiss]

I heard Ba Ba Ba? :l

[theshninja]

I heard 'ba ba ba' or 'va va va' the whole time. Also I was hoping for COACH McGuirk.

[spacedakini]

I heared "ba, ba, ba"...

[TheMoek1]

@Spanishax

I know me too!

[spanishax]

All I heard was "ba ba ba".

I guess I'm a minority...

[MarcusTheReverent]

this is the stupidest shit ever

who fucking cares

like im gonna use this information in my daily life?

what is this a game show

[abdeviation]

This is some BULLSHIT. All I heard was LA LA LA LA

[stewrules]

I wonder if Lady gaga intended to do this for Bad Romance...

[rpcguy]

guys dont worry, the fat man is wearing a lab suit, he must be a scientist

[PiaZickar]

He was saying da da da da or sumthin, this shit is sooo confusing

[thethwaitey]

@PiaZickar He was saying "ga ga ga" but they relayed a "ba ba ba" sound over it.

[ksmyth9288]

i thought he was alternating between ga and ba... i never heard da

[holden415]

I thought he was saying ba ba in the first place. Fuck that shit...NIGGA!

[valttu94]

TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING, ITS OVER!!!

YOUR MOTHER!

TANGO SUCKA!

TACTICAL HEADER!

[sdeonbeefus]

DERP

[GotxMilk22]

i heard bababa the first time.....

[dimseeeen]

lady baba?

[SpoiledKitty07]

UHM. DIDN'T WORK FOR ME AT ALL. I totally got different words all together.

I heard BA BA BA while LOOKING. I DEFINATELY heard BA BA BA with my eyes closed so there was no change. Without sound, I thought he was saying LA LA LA.

WTF. :\

[RenjiAbarai777]

@SpoiledKitty07 Same here wtf indeed

[SpoiledKitty07]

@RenjiAbarai777 This thing is fo sho retarded! UGH!

[Drdoggystyle69]

This one didn't work for me :(

try "Hear with Your Eyes: The McGurk Effect " in the sidebar. That one is better.

[UpForDanceroid]

their both ba ba ba ba ba ba ba no gaga???

[shedinjask]

but i heard "ba ba ba" the first two times and saw "ba ba ba" the third time. idk what?

[takashi3061]

I heard 'a a a a' both the first time and the second..

This really is a crappy demo of the McGurk effect.

[GoofDof]

McGurk effect is a joke

[Dropkicktheposers]

If I head Ba Ba from the beginning what does that mean about me?

[k3ngarbage]

i only hear "a"

[cathrynm]

yeah, I just heard ahh, ahh, ahh every time.

[Waterworks410]

ya i definitely heard ba all three times this sucks

[tirimut]

Pa-pa-pa-pa.

[charleshdowns]

He's cute!

[psych0]

McGurk doesn't effect me. Grand Majority, my ass

[magicboy10xx]

I'm not even hearing any of the sounds I'm supposed to hear. All it is is 'aah' 'aah'.

[AveFlo11]

BA BA BA all the way

[Rudahn]

...nope.

I hear/see ba every time.

Fail.

[23rakshasa23]

I heard ba ba ba the first time...perhaps being a musician has something to do with it?

Intriguing...

[graceoverall]

Erm, excuse me, there's NO WAY his lips are saying "ga ga ga." If this were so, his lips should never touch. The lips only touch for "ba ba ba." Even "da" cannot be properly produced by touching your lips. Learn to speak Engrish, lol

[Miniboulette]

LoL !!! J'entends " PA PA PA " moi !

[soju69jinro]

so stupid... i could disprove this "MecGurk Effect"

soo easily

[maxymyllyon]

@soju69jinro you would probably get a lot of money and a PhD, but sadly you're not smart enough... nope.

[soju69jinro]

@maxymyllyon Sadly, you dont know me enough to safely assume that i am not smart enough. I could easily use physics to contradict this video... and "maxymyilyon" dont ever assume that ill get money and a PhD for disproving such theory. That is a disrespect claim to all PhD degree Professors. Also you can't assume that I have or dont have a PhD. and this is the comment section about the video. so you dont really have any right to use remarks by your assuming thoughts and opinions

[maxymyllyon]

@soju69jinro

superb logic! you passed the test, I'm actually your professor. See you in class.

[gavsmith1980]

@soju69jinro

go on then, since the vast majority of humans can be fooled using the the mcgurk effect, displaying how our senses are linked to others, (watch the horizon version - top video on the right) which part of it do you think you can "soo easily disprove?"

[Waddleduck64]

Ok this makes me think of babies.

[ZZAKON]

That was just Aa Aa Aa... not ba neither da, neither ga.

[bennemann]

I heard Pa Pa Pa the whole time...

[dirteyphil]

thought it was ba the whole time, fucking fail

[thetreeleprechaun]

This is terrible compared to another user-friendly video on Youtube. Search up "The McGurk Effect - Horizon Is Seeing Believing?"

You can see the effect much easier and there's not a stupid doctor with a lab coat reminding you that he's a scientist

[ProjectBerklee]

this is utter bullshit.

im hearing 'THA' regardless of eyes closed or not. 

[1nflames666]

I can't stop laughing at how fail this is.

[archofthedark]

all I heard wass aaah on the first one, and saw law, then ah, on the final..... wierd interpretation

[crppypnkrck]

terrible 

[hafeez587]

I didnt heard da da da..or ba ba in beginning, I heard Ga Ga..bt ths guy is nt stressing on G, so it was soft ga ga..

[3hlang]

I heard it half ba half aah

[nyjets422]

i heard rah rah ah ah ah roma romama ga ga ooh la la

i think i did it wrong.

[theanswerisegg]

@nyjets422 hahahhaa you made me looll

[INCProductions]

@nyjets422 I really hate to admit this... but I did too...

[TheCarlScharnberg]

@nyjets422 Haha! That made me laugh out loud.

[timeparadox888]

The lips are going bababa, not gagaga. There's a much better demonstration of the effect in the related videos.

[rhcorr]

I kept hearing "Ah. Ah. Ah" ALL the way.

[Keael]

This effect never works for me, no matter who is demonstrating it... I guess I just have a really good ear...

[alakazimmy]

i heard (and saw) a downer

[cwseet]

this link shows it so much better:

wimp. com / mcgurkeffect

[hotapplepipe]

is this a joke? worst example of the mcgurk effect ever..

[Longmachao]

Am i the only one hearing him say Ta Ta Ta ?

[tunnis7us]

@Longmachao

I hear that too no da da da ova hare

[dougie211292]

Fa and Ba demonstrate it much better

[CardinalRaker]

Fail, psychology will do anything to separate itself from general studies Bah!

[digiphotology]

This the most crap demo of the McGurk effect I have ever seen

[televisewhatyouwant]

he got ba and da sort of right. His lips would have to stay apart to be repeating Ga though

[garglfluz]

the problem is he keeps closing his mouth between each sound. if he didn't, it would work better, because it would look less like 'ba.'

[TheFreedomaniac]

It never works for me.

[kiaeneto13]

Why are people bitching about this guy? Just pay attention to the experiment and stop talking about who wants dick or anything unnecessary like that..

[ZejithThemis]

me too with the "ba".

[darkembassymusic]

i heard papapa

[yoshiegg1544]

I everything they said except "ah" instead of "da"