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Attention Capture
Entry #0788
Why a moving mouth is watched even on mute
A moving mouth is watched on mute because lip-reading circuits activate automatically, compelling the viewer to fixate even without audio to decode.
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A muted talking face is not silent — it is speaking to a circuit that cannot stop listening. The brain tries to decode speech visually, and that unfinished task holds the gaze hostage.