The art of ventriloquism can seem Sisyphean in nature. An apprentice works long and hard on vocal technique and hones routines for comedy audiences prone to heckling, all in order to find their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ventriloquism is a dead art – at least, that’s what Monkey tells me, although his own career would appear to ...