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Published online 3 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040202-3

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Reverse ventriloquism

We can be tricked into trusting our ears over our eyes.

Ventriloquists should be jealous. Scientists have explained their trick in detail, and have managed to produce the reverse effect - where people are tricked into believing their ears over their eyes1.

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