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  • listen to what u percieve as faaa nd then look away from the screen and u will hear baa its brilliant

  • I hear vaa, not faa. :(

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  • pffthhahah, bullshat, only i hear "BAABAABAA", THEN "PFAPFAPFA" SERIOSLY, 25 years he will never get back :/

  • this is fun if your watch the FAFAFA one and you keep opening and closing ur eyes. BAFABAFAFABA :D

  • insane

  • I feel like I just got mind raped

  • the effect worked completly on me when it sounds like faa close you eyes for 1 of them and it will sound like baa again

  • I've been JFK'd.

  • @casi24

    me too.. what wrong with us? xD

  • @GinomeGelati high iq

  • I wonder what the kids at the carnival thought of him when he was doing that.

  • when I watched baa and then faa I heard the sound change, I then didn't watch for baa but when it changed to faa I watched and I still heard baa. Sounds more like vaa at times too. I guess it only really works with sounds that are close to each other.

  • i just kept switching and my brain made a remix ba ba fa ba fa fa

  • get teeth fixed

    fake and gay

  • @TeHCoLoNeLSaiGoN The only one "fake and gay" is yourself.

  • 27 people have rabies

  • I'm hearing faa, not baa all the time. why does the illusion NOT work on me?

  • @GobBluth1 If you are hearing faa some of the time, then the illusion IS working. The audio in the video is always baa, but when you see the man's lips do the motions of making an "f" sound you hear faa instead.

  • Ja słysze FUCK

  • this is such a mindfuck. my fingers curled up when i realised that i couldn't control what i was comprehending. what else has our brains processed for us that is not the same as reality?

  • the woman always talks when the "vah" picture is displayed... bullshit from BBC

  • I am influenced by the McGuirk effect constantly - every time I try to watch Archer or Bob' Burgers - all I hear is Coach McGuirk!

  • i heard ba ba the whole time

  • I heared it clearly bababa vavava... either my brain is computing tha data better or this is a lousy "trick" effect.....

  • @allen19m But he's never saying "va," that's the point. 

  • O____O BABABA FAFAFA

  • oh my god lady shut the fuck up i'm trying to listen to the guy

    "CONCENTRATE FIRST ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN, THEN LOOK AT THE LEFT."

    no shit i could figure out i was supposed to do that and was in fact already doing it before you decided you needed to explain it to me

    goddamn

  • acctualy this is an hoax there is 2 sounds in this video and when looking at a certain side you focus on that sound. imagine you have twenty frogs and they all make the same sound you can still focus on one frog and the sound comming from that frog.

  • @Jackas92

    Close your eyes than....you'll only ever here Baa baa baa

  • @Jackas92 You, and people like you, are complete morons. The effect has been demonstrated many times over for decades and the majority of people are tricked by it. Why would they want to pull a hoax on people? Get real.

  • @NASCreations for the same reason someone would create one account and only upload one video, to earn money from commercial and or to get ppl to their website.

  • Well i get the point but nobody says letter "f" like that. Its not an illusion, its making "faa" sound more like "baa". I could do "maa" like "baa" also. Extremly stupid stuff, but hey, this is mainstream news stuff. All these people on work do not think and walking around like "BAAA" "BAAA" "BAAA" on lunch break and "FAAA" FAAA" "FAAA" before going to bed.

  • @Matu1 You haven't gotten the point. There is no change in the way he is saying "bah". He's simply looped the "bah" with a video of him saying "fah", thus pursing his lips as if to make an "f" sound and tricking your brain. Close your eyes on occasion and it'll become clear.

  • @Matu1 You think it's stupid that scientists have discovered that what we sense is not just the result of one sense but many? This is incredibly interesting data and has huge implications for what humans will believe when certain sensory tricks are used. On this same program, several chefs were tricked into thinking that the taste of certain drinks was something completely different to what it actually was by simply changing the colour of the drinks.

  • I'm not buying this. Because I had learned to count in Mandarin Chinese, I was particularly sensitive to the difference. This is one of those "emperor's new clothes" conjecture things that sets off my "snake oil radar."After continuously seeing the "F" sound AFTER the "B" sound, I still knew the difference. This guy spent 25 years with this?If you are sensitive to the discernment in this area, (musicians, especially older guitarists who remember strobe tuners) you are impervious to this.

  • @GuitarGare agreed. I can still subtly hear when he says "fa." 

  • @Orbital431 yeah, we're living in a world where not only do all the lemmings go where ever they are pointed, but it seems the sign that points them in different ways is commandeered by Pat Sajak. Meaning: Once he spins the wheel, the theory/syndrome of the day that must be subscribed to is in "this direction" or "over here"...and the "sheeple" blindly follow.

  • GTFO of my head! D:

  • uh. i can clearly hear him switch to "fa", no idea what the stupid narrarator lady was talking about.

  • @mightforright Have you tried closing your eyes and listening to the same sound?

    What's with the scepticism here? Has anyone even researched some on the net about the McGurk effect? There are clear evidence that our brain works like this.

  • @flaskis isn't the whole point of this to be watching and listening at the same time?

  • @mightforright well yeah. But I'm trying to say that, when you see him saying vaa instead of baa, close your eyes, or just scroll down so you won't see the video, and you'll hear him saying baa again.

  • @flaskis heh, ya i see your point. i'm a musician as well so my ear might be a little more sensitive. kinda hard to unhear the fa after i've seen the video though.

  • .... So then why is watching a dub of a kung fu movie not all muddled?

  • @faeriegeek Because the audio and movements of their mouths aren't synchronized. Also, the mouth movements themselves aren't familiar. Oh, and you're probably watching the subtitles far more often than you're actually watching the people talking.

  • I was actually hearing "ba ba ba" even when the mouth movement changed. Then they told me what the mcgurk effect was and i began hearing "fa fa fa"

  • And how the fuck does this help to fight cancer? hm? Ba ba ba your ass! McGurk!

  • @Vo0oDo0oFrosch 'And how the fuck does this help to fight cancer? hm?'

    Psychology ≠ cancer research. Leave the cancer research to the cancer researchers, or go help them yourself

  • sorry, in Icelandic these sounds are very distinct, hence no illusion

  • @TeslaFlux

    Ég og fleiri Íslendingar sem ég hafa séð þetta heyra mun...

  • For me it feels more like I'm hearing the original sound - but because he can't talk properly so I believe he's trying to say the other word. lol

  • So weird XD

  • Thats some crazy ass shit lol

  • When I closed my eyes the second time I really only heard BAA the entire clip. Very cool.

  • So... I guess this just proves that you hear and understand people better when you don't look at them while they're talking?

    Well, whatever... I have the sudden urge to listen to Trio now, though...

  • @OuroborosChoked If whomever you're talking with mixes up their mouth movements at random, then yeah, probably. If you're speaking with your date in a busy restaurant and there's a jackhammer going off outside, then looking at their face is probably the least you can do.

  • When he changes his expression, he tries to say bah unnaturally, and it sounds like a blend of bah and vah. Close your eyes and listen. He is not saying the same thing and cannot because he is moving his lips differently.

  • @sean10222 The sound and video are not recorded at the same time. The sound has been dubbed over when he would have actually be saying 'FAH" the recording is saying "BAH." And that is the point of the allusion, although we are hearing something our vision is so powerful that it overrides our perception of the sound! Seriously amazing!

  • 2:30 Duck attack

  • I tried closing my eyes (after it should the FA mouth), still thinking it was FA, and still heard FA, I suppose that's due to not only what the eyes see, but what the brain thinks/presumes (usually due to what it sees, but not in this case)

  • i heard him telling me to burn things... that was the point of this right?

  • Wow. I swear i heard him say FA. Then I closed my eyes and it was BA lol

  • Who else wants cotton candy?

  • No the sound of B and V ARE different. I can totally tell that with my eyes closed that which one's which.

  • @bettyjoon3

    Ummm its the same noise, there is no difference in sound

  • @EmmaTall09 i'm saying i can tell the difference when he's saying B and V. maybe it's just me.

  • @bettyjoon3 wtf??? he is say 'baa' the WHOLE time! i think you should watch the whole thing again.... you DON'T get it!

  • @bettyjoon3

    I think you should watch the video again and actually listen to what he says xD

  • @bettyjoon3

    Sorry, it's the same noise over and over. That is the point of this illusion.

  • Brendan! Quit saying 'na na na' and get back on the field.

  • @xtxtfive LOL! SOMEBODY had to say it.

  • I hear a retard. I looked away when I saw him making the mouth motions of "fa" instead of "ba", and it stayed as ba. So what are you trying to show us? I'm sure anyone who's not an idiot can figure out what's going on without you explaining it to us.

  • MAJOR MIND FUCK!!!!!

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  • faggotry

  • robot goat man. BAA. BAA. BAA

  • I wish they used the word "Bag" as the example instead of "Bah" would have been pretty funny

  • 25years of studying boring shit

  • @yodaisgod2 Unless you're in the field of animation, film, psychology, acting, story telling, anthropology, or are just generally interested in how YOUR OWN RACE WORKS.

  • @VulpeRenard NOPE. He should spend more time figure out how to cure cancer instead. That's more valuable to society.

  • @yodaisgod2 Do you realize how ridiculous that statement is? He's not an oncologist and I doubt you are either. That's why neither he nor you is currently trying to "figure out cancer." Or do you just think that everybody in the world should be on this assignment? Have nobody that researches space travel or human emotion or demographics. How narrow is your view of the world that you don't think everything should be explored, especially the intricate details of human perception?

  • @yodaisgod2

    Just a question, Are you trying to cure cancer?

    I mean if you demand that someone else contribute to this bullshit notion of societal wellbeing, why don't you step up to the plate. Also after you cure cancer then please focus on heart desease and HIV and radiation and stupidity and the recipe for the perfect stroganoff and a new song for the radio since all we hear the same crap

    Though then again I might have just stuck my foot in my mouth u might be an oncologist but I doubt it

  • @Psychelectric Cancer can never be cured because the pharmaceutical industrial will never allow that to happen. There is no money in a cure. Just in research and prolonging life. Same goes with AIDS and HIV. More money in TRYING to keep people alive.Stupid is an inherited gene. Just ask your parents.

  • @yodaisgod2

    Moreover, pharmacuetical companies can make progress in cancer drugs, because chemo is highly toxic and does kill some people undergoing treatment. Also many people refuse chemo due to the toxic effects. Thus if people refuse your drugs or die while taking your drugs you can't make money either. And I know how corrupt pharmacuetical companies are, and I know what radiation is, that wasn't the point.

    But either way if you want to divert my question go ahead.

  • @Psychelectric Can't cure radiation because it's been around since the birth of the universe. I do have the perfect receipt for stroganoff. You probably have seen it in the store under the "Betty Croker" label. Some times they are on sale at your local grocery store.

    Make sure your foot is clean before you stick it in your mouth.

  • @yodaisgod2

    It seems as if you missed my point so I'll spell it out for you . . . In a previous comment you stated "He should spend more time figure out how to cure cancer instead. That's more valuable to society."

    My question to you is "What are you doing that's valuable to society?" (Curing cancer?)

    The point being that if you want to demand something of someone else, you should be willing to do it yourself.

    The point wasn't to discuss a corrupt phamaceutical market or Betty Crocker.

  • Fucking annoyng!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Very interesting. Similar to the psychological effect where the color of food affects the taste of food... I can't quite remember the name.

  • could someone please make a PROPER video of this.... I keep looking for videos of the McGurk effect without someone talking during the process, but I keep coming up with videos of people that are doing it completely wrong, and they don't even work at all.

  • If you read this and ignore the narrator instead of watching the video, then you'll notice that the McGurk effect is all about a bloke doing an awful impression of a sheep for about 2 minutes.

  • @MrBreeeezy lol, obviously you don't understand the concept of the experiment.

  • @1981z28camaro lol, obviously you don't have a sense of humour.

  • @MrBreeeezy fair enough, lol :-)

  • This makes me wonder about the end of the movie "A Christmas Story" when the Chinese waiters are singing "Deck the harrs with boughs of horry, RA RA RA RA RA RA RA RA RA"

  • I can read lips, didn't fool me.

  • I heard BAA for both... Regardless of picture. Is there something wrong with my brain?

  • @Dooality did you close your eyes during the part where it looked like he was saying "Fah" and hear "Bah" and then when you reopen them did you hear "Bah" when it looked like he was still saying "Fah" you should be doing it this way, just for your info :-)

  • you will get dementia

  • Fascinating effect. The human mind is so complex, we're only beginning to understand it. Read Richard Dawkins "God Delusion" if you really want your mind opened

  • my nose is bleeding

  • Give Jon Stewart back the "moment of zen"--his is much more interesting.

  • I heard ба ба ба

  • I thought it's va va va, not fa fa fa.

  • pa pa pa pa? thats all I heard....

  • ba ba ba. fa fa fa. ba ba ba. fa fa fa.

  • Oh gee, getting stoned and watching this video sure was fun...FAH-FAH-FAHCK OFF!! What an illusion. Bet you didn't see that coming. Assholes..

  • I'm going fucking insane listening to the fucking narrator talking over it.

  • Holy living shit, the narrator won't shut the fuck up during EVERY "Fa" moment, so none of us can hear it anyway. She only ever talks over the top of the "Fa" effect, so we can't tell EITHER Way. Fuck!

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  • Old news, really. Anyone who's had to watch an unclear video or deal with people with speech impediments already knows it.

  • i still hear ba...

  • we just got mcgurked

    go i am bored

  • What a STUPID commet bonbon...your screen name AND that STUPID comment pretty much shows your intelligence!! Some people are just SOOOO ignorant!! Go back to your porn hole MORON!!

  • I still heard BAA when he was saying FAA...

  • @starmanlover He was sayng BAA the whole time, he never said FAA

  • @dannymaceachern Yeah- I know, but when the video- his mouth was making the FAA shape- i still hear BAA... it sounded nothing like FAA.... I didn't even know it was supposed to be slightly different... I was confused... :S

  • Doesn't seem to work on me..

  • When he's doing the " FA " noise, close your eye's/look away from the screen and it's " BA ". Seriously screwed with my head.

  • @StXander That's because it's exactly the same sound-clip as when he says "ba". It's kinda the whole point of the effect >.>

  • @Simarillio That's what I'm trying to say to all the none believers. Honest!

  • @StXander Oh, okies. Sorry, I misunderstood xD

  • @EndersGamez Um, that's kind of the point...

  • @EndersGamez ... did you understand the video at all? The idea is that he looks like he's doing an "F" sound, so we hear it as an "F", even when it's actually a "B". As evidenced by the split screen.

  • Buck- Buck- Buck

  • I hope he wasn't working exclusively on The McGurk effect for 25 years.

  • vacuum.

  • ZOMFG

    

  • The effect seems to be affected by the mother language. For example my mother language is German. When I watched this clip I had the feeling, that the images of the alternate version didn't fit at all to the sound. All I heard was "ba".

    But what I know is, that the McGurk works on me with "ba" and "da".

  • @ArgoIo well, my mother language is german 2, but i do hear BA and VA/FA. I guess thats cause we do have same sounds as in english, for example imagine wahrscheinlich with a strong emphasis on the wa.

    This is no offence!

  • @unbeingdeadisntalive Hmm... Applied to a word such as "wahrscheinlich" (English: probably) it would be a lot more difficult to tell the difference. You're right.

  • Fascinating.

  • What?

    

  • There are individuals in whom this can get very tangled. Many colleagues and I work in film and video, and part of the editing process is often matching of lip movements to not necessarily the actual sync dialog track.  Because we're used to watching for minutae of lip movement, the McGurk effect can kind of phase in and out in the same clip.

    MannChristian's comment is, I think, a bit naive. You're specifically looking at the lip movements, and knowing what to watch for, with no distractions.

  • back fuck

  • @RapToTheWorld lmfao

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  • I can not buy it. The visuals aren't the same for "Bah" and "Fah". With 'Bah' the lower lip starts out over the upper teeth. Then with 'Fah' you will notice that the lower lip starts out behind the upper teeth. My eyes do not decieve my ears by way of my brain, I do believe that this is known as the McGurkle Effect and I can only chuckle.

  • This also works with smelling and seeing.

  • This illusion effect is also why people were able to get away with less than crisp sound effects as long as the visuals were good. The sheer importance of visual effects might also be why some amateur flash game coders forget about sound effects at first.

  • This only works if you can't hear it clearly.

    I plugged in headphones to make it clearer and I hear BA almost every time.

    Only time it starts to sound like FA or VA is when they make the sound softer when the woman is speaking because then I can't hear the sound as clearly.

  • GET OUT OF MY HEAD CHARLES!!

  • I hear "fpa" in both instances.

  • Very Interesting!!!!!!!

  • that is incredible!

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  • I'd hear BAA and FAA a lot better if the narrator would shut the hell up for a second.

  • @mikevaiana We don't hear the wrong sound, we process the sound incorrectly. If we heard the wrong sound the dependent factor wouldn't be vision, it would be auditory. The sound never actually changes, only our perception of it. There is no spoon.

  • Has anyone else noticed that the narrator is ALWAYS talking during the "Fa/va"?

  • From my book:

    The McGurk effect offers evidence that we lipread automatically. It’s also consistent with neuroimaging research showing that the brain responds to lipread information as if it’s hearing speech. Seeing a face silently articulate induces activity in the ‘hearing’ areas of the brain including auditory cortex. This is true for all of us, whether hearing or deaf. These findings are part of the evidence that speech perception evolved as a multisensory function.

    -Lawrence Rosenblum

  • Madgab anyone?

  • If the narrator would shut the fuck up, I'd be able to concentrate on the split screen better!

  • soooo gay like if basshunter sent u XD

  • This is so trippy. And dudes, it does work, okey. YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL.

  • I have hearing difficulties and occasionally have to rely on lip reading. This is just so weird.

  • wowsers. I've been interested in illusions for years... and this is a first. the video attached is unrelated.

  • buck buck buck!!!

  • Eh illusion didn't work for me.. Didn't understand it until they explained it, and it still didn't work.. When he was saying fa with his lips, I thought he was trying to lip sync to ba or something and that was the illusion. ehhh

  • see for yourself what visual creatures we are.

  • There's an error in the commentary. She says we can't trust what we hear, but what we can't trust is what we see. What we hear is accurate until you add in visual perception, and the our brain reconfigures what we're hearing to match our visual perception.

  • @pikeymick caught that myself.