WATCH: "30 Second Science" with Larry Rosenblum | Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers

WATCH: “30 Second Science” with Larry Rosenblum

Posted by Seandor Szeles | 15 January 2013

Did you know that we can “see” speech? And “hear” visuals? Larry Rosenblum studies how our senses share information, giving us powers of perception that we don’t even know we have.

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