Table 2.

Example of manipulation of sentence meaning for the audio-visual combination of |bait| and [gate] perceived as “date.”

Target word	Stimuli	Sentence	Compatibility
McGurk-only	Auditory	The teenage boy was looking forward to his bait	No
	Visual	The teenage boy was looking forward to his gate	No
	McGurk fusion	The teenage boy was looking forward to his date	Yes
McGurk and Auditory	Auditory	The couple arranged to meet on a bait	No
	Visual	The couple arranged to meet on a gate	Yes
	McGurk fusion	The couple arranged to meet on a date	Yes
McGurk and Visual	Auditory	The fisherman organized his bait	Yes
	Visual	The fisherman organized his gate	No
	McGurk fusion	The fisherman organized his date	Yes
None	Auditory	My phone number was bait	No
	Visual	My phone number was gate	No
	McGurk fusion	My phone number was date	No
Visual-only	Auditory	To catch a trout I need the bait	Yes
	Visual	To catch a trout I need the gate	No
	McGurk fusion	To catch a trout I need the date	No
Auditory-only	Auditory	The bull was locked behind the bait	No
	Visual	The bull was locked behind the gate	Yes
	McGurk fusion	The bull was locked behind the date	No

The target word column indicates the conditions (e.g., sentence's meaning compatible with McGurk fusion and/or the unisensory inputs). The stimuli column indicates, respectively, what the input was in the auditory and visual channel and the expected perceived sentence; the column sentence provides an example. The column headed “Compatibility” indicates whether the final word was compatible or incompatible with the sentence context.