When someone with average hearing and sight gets conflicting information through each sense which one does the brain trust?
Researchers say if you have people count the number of times a light flashes while listening to beeping tones, they’ll assume the light flickered as many times as the beeping occurred – even when they are not the same number. When it’s an issue of timing and the brain has to make sense of similar information delivered in a sequence, the brain counts on hearing.
However, when it’s a question of an image conflicting with a sound, the visual wins out. If an actor in a film appears to say “bah” but the sound track is “dah” people will swear they heard “bah.”
