Dr. Jennifer Groh

It's not that that's where the binding of visual and auditory space started.

you know, is necessarily fully contained there and only there.

I think it's a much bigger problem.

And I think what you're describing is kind of, you know, another version of this kind of capturing of

or integrating or connecting the information from one sensory system to another, that kind of shifting your resources around is something that happens in a few different contexts, like what you're describing.

And I think one of the things that's really interesting about the phone or really any screen where you're watching a video

is that the sound was never coming directly from the screen where you're looking at the visual image.

You know, it's coming from somewhere else.

Maybe you've got earbuds in and it's coming from the earbuds.

Maybe the earbud signal is simulating what the location should be if it was really coming from the screen, but it's a simulation.

It's not...

Not actually reality.

Yep.

Lips are moving.

It looks totally weird.

Yes.

Well, not only that, but like the sound is jumping around in your perception as different people on the screen from different locations on the screen are speaking.

Whatever means the sound is being delivered to you is not changing as the different people are speaking.

Let me amend a little bit here because it depends a lot on like how the sound is mixed.

They can put in some spatial cues, but if they haven't done that, then what we just said applies.