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Harry McGurk

A man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a brown suit jacket over a light blue shirt and patterned tie, smiles warmly against a neutral background.

Scottish developmental psychologist (1936–1998) who spent most of his career studying how infants pick up language from the faces around them. The illusion that bears his name was a by-product of a control experiment run with his assistant John MacDonald at the University of Surrey in 1976. He later directed the Australian Institute of Family Studies in Melbourne.

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