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Auditory Illusions!

studiorat · 2010-03-25 14:40:32

Here's something some people might enjoy. It's a top 10 of auditory illusions. http://listverse.com/2008/02/29/top-10-incredible-sound-illusions/ And a link to Diana Deutschs record, she a perceptual and cognitive psychologist famous for discovering some strange paradoxes in what we hear and what we think we are hearing.…

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Here's something some people might enjoy. It's a top 10 of auditory illusions.

http://listverse.com/2008/02/29/top-10-incredible-sound-illusions/

And a link to Diana Deutschs record, she a perceptual and cognitive psychologist famous for discovering some strange paradoxes in what we hear and what we think we are hearing.

Diana Deutsch audio illusions.

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#2 25-03-2010 5:12pm

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that first one is well weird - swap your headphones around and nothing changes !

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#3 25-03-2010 11:42pm

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Yup. Our brain groups the information together. If you are right handed you tend to hear the high part on the right.

Shows how everybody hears differently, and what we hear isn't always what's happening.

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