New research confirms that what we see can sometimes depend as much on our ears as on our eyes. Research led by Dr Elliot Freeman, lecturer in psychology at Brunel University’s School of Social ...

Yes, it’s routines like that that give ventriloquism a bad name. That and those horror films that see something sinister in a lifelike puppet ruled by his master. (Hmm, or is he …?) But the world of ...

ERLANGER, Ky. — For years, ventriloquism has held a reputation as being dorky at best, sinister at worst. Even now it summons up horror movies about a homicidal dummy, or a homicidal ventriloquist, or ...

Your brain’s system for directing attention is what makes you think a puppet has a mind of its own, argues ventriloquist and neuroscientist Michael Graziano It wasn’t to make some scientific point. I ...

Today, during the last 15 minutes of the last lecture in NEU 200: Functional Neuroanatomy, psychology professor Michael Graziano ’89 introduced a special guest lecturer — Kevin, his orangutan puppet. ...