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John F. Magnotti

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Cognitive neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine and later the University of Pennsylvania, whose work with Michael Beauchamp produced the dominant computational account of the McGurk effect: a causal-inference model in which the brain decides, syllable by syllable, whether the eyes and ears are watching the same speaker. The model predicts when listeners will fuse the inputs and when they will not.

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