In an experiment, participants are shown a video of a person's mouth saying monosyllabic sounds, such as "ba," "da," and "tha." However, the audio component does not always match what the speaker's mouth was saying when the syllables were recorded.Researchers asked participants to identify the sound they heard.The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether ______.
A)sound influences what we see
B)vision and hearing occur simultaneously or sequentially
C)vision influences the sounds we hear
D)the conflicting signals would make perception impossible

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The experiment aims to determine whether vision influences the sounds we hear, as the audio component does not always match what the participants saw the speaker's mouth saying. The study does not specifically address whether sound influences what we see, whether vision and hearing occur simultaneously or sequentially, or whether conflicting signals would make perception impossible.

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