Hearing With Your Face

redorbit ^ | Sunday, 25 January 2009, 08:45 CST

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The movement of facial skin and muscles around the mouth plays an important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard according to a study by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research laboratory.

"How your own face is moving makes a difference in how you 'hear' what you hear," said first author Takayuki Ito, a senior scientist at Haskins.

When, Ito and his colleagues used a robotic device to stretch the facial skin of "listeners" in a way that would normally accompany speech production they found it affected the way the subjects heard the speech sounds.

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Here we see the innocent volunteer before. Doing her part, she thought, to advance science.




Here we see The hapless victim afterwards. Her sensory input permanently deranged. Words like "prosperity" and "fiscal responsibility" sound bad while words like "bailout" "community reinvestment" and ""spending other people's money" sound good. The test subject was last seen headed towards DC, she is well funded and dangerous...

[GeronL]

goodness. RUN!!

[reformedliberal]

used a robotic device to stretch the facial skin of “listeners” in a way that would normally accompany speech production they found it affected the way the subjects heard the speech sounds.

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