Week 1 Answer:

Last week Science Spark looked at how you listen to what people say. Do you always hear what you think you have heard? The question posed was:

What did she say?
a) KAKA
b) BABA

In fact, both answers are correct depending on what you have been paying attention to. If you have been lip reading, you will find that she is actually mouthing the word KAKA. But the voice over is BABA. So for those of you who use your ears more than your eyes, you would hear the word BABA.

That means from of our pool of results, 34% of people tend to lip-read, whereas the remaining 66% prefer listening.

Lip reading does play an important part in helping us hear more clearly. Especially in a noisy party, visual input can help us focus on a particular conversation and not get distracted by all the other noise around us.

To find out more, try some of the links below:

http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/dwm/news/infotech.html

http://boojum.hut.fi/triennial/hearing.html

http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html

http://www.psych.ucr.edu/avspeech/VSMcGurk.html

The WINNER for this week 1 Science Spark Quiz is:
Mr Wong Been Por
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