In this interesting audiovisual illusion, when you play the audio on the video and focus on the left clip, it seems like the person is saying “bar.” However, when shifting your attention to the right clip, the word now appears to be “far.”

This phenomenon is known as the McGurk Effect, which explains how our perception of sound can be influenced by what we see.

(via Kottke)

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