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Multimedia Links

• Video: the McGurk effect, with an explanation of the multisensory illusion.
• Video: Musical training can help improve our speech perception in noise, and in older adults, too.
• Video: Janet Werker and associates describe techniques to study speech perception in babies, such as the conditioned head turn procedure.
• Audio: some background on computer speech recognition – a difficult problem. NOVA, PBS
• Audio: podcast of retaining traces of a lost first language sounds, even after not using that language for many years. NPR, Science Friday
• Audio: examples of stimuli used in a categorical perception experiment, with changing voice-onset time (bad to bat), and other examples. UCLA
• Audio: Daniel Glaser on mirror neurons and multi-modal perception. The focus is on visual input, but the same prinicples likely apply to auditory input. NOVA, PBS