Your senses are Tricksy! (McGurk effect Edition)
You remember The Gorilla Effect , right? To remind you ( from LiveScience ) The so-called "invisible gorilla" test had volunteers watching a video where two groups of people — some dressed in white, some in black — are passing basketballs around. The volunteers were asked to count the passes among players dressed in white while ignoring the passes of those in black. (To watch the video for yourself, click here .) The point being that what you see may not necessarily be what actually happened - something the the New Jersey supreme court took into consideration when they made it much easier for defendants to challenge "eye-witness testimony" last August . From the New York Times The State Supreme Court’s ruling was seen as significant because it was based in part on an exhaustive study of the scientific research on eyewitness identification, led by a special master , a retired judge, who held hearings and led a review of the literature on the issue...