{"id":152126,"date":"2022-12-07T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/hearing-is-believing-sounds-can-alter-our-visual-perception"},"modified":"2022-12-07T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:29:13","slug":"hearing-is-believing-sounds-can-alter-our-visual-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/hearing-is-believing-sounds-can-alter-our-visual-perception","title":{"rendered":"Hearing is believing: Sounds can alter our visual perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hearing-is-believing-sounds-can-alter-our-visual-perception3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perception generally feels effortless. If you hear a bird chirping and look out the window, it hardly feels like your brain has done anything at all when you recognize that chirping critter on your windowsill as a bird.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, research in <i>Psychological Science<\/i> suggests that these kinds of audio cues can not only help us to recognize objects more quickly but can even alter our visual <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/perception\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">perception<\/a>. That is, pair birdsong with a bird and we see a bird\u2014but replace that birdsong with a squirrel\u2019s chatter, and we\u2019re not quite so sure what we\u2019re looking at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour brain spends a significant amount of energy to process the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/sensory+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sensory information<\/a> in the world and to give you that feeling of a full and seamless perception,\u201d said lead author Jamal R. Williams (University of California, San Diego) in an interview. \u201cOne way that it does this is by making inferences about what sorts of information should be expected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perception generally feels effortless. If you hear a bird chirping and look out the window, it hardly feels like your brain has done anything at all when you recognize that chirping critter on your windowsill as a bird. In fact, research in Psychological Science suggests that these kinds of audio cues can not only help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}