According to your textbook, the McGurk effect
a. demonstrates that visual information can influence our speech perception.
b. is similar to an illusory contour, except that it occurs during speech perception.
c. illustrates that we often think we hear a boundary between words, even when the words are run together.
d. shows that phonemes are not pronounced in a consistent fashion.
Ans: a
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