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An '''auditory illusion''' is an [[illusion]] of [[hearing (sense)|hearing]], the [[sound]] equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds. In short, audio illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors (for better or for worse). |
An '''auditory illusion''' is an [[illusion]] of [[hearing (sense)|hearing]], the [[sound]] equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds. In short, audio illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors (for better or for worse). |
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Auditory illusions are illusions that are heard. A person that hears sounds that aren’t there or sounds that can’t really happen is an example of an auditory. Illusions always involve senses and auditory illusions involve hearing or listening. Auditory illusions highlight parts where the human ear and brain, can hear different sounds from a perfect sound or noise (for better or for worse).
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An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the sound equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds. In short, audio illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors (for better or for worse).
Examples of auditory illusions:
- the Shepard tone or scale, and the Deutsch tritone paradox
- hearing a missing fundamental frequency, given other parts of the harmonic series
- Various psychoacoustic tricks of lossy Audio compression
- Octave illusion/Deutsch's High-Low Illusion
- Deutsch's scale illusion
- Glissando illusion
- Illusory continuity of tones
- McGurk Effect
See also
- Auditory stimulation
- Binaural beats
- Doppler effect - not an illusion, but real physical phenomenon
- Optical illusion
- Psychoacoustics
- Tinnitus
External links
- Demonstrations of various auditory illusions at Kyushu Institute of Design
- Diana Deutsch's Web Page
- "You must be hearing things", CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks for Kids
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