Five Great Auditory Illusions

Filed Under (Medical, Science) by Andy on 19-03-2008

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NewScientist discusses 5 interesting auditory illusions that can help us better understand how the brain works. Each of the five illusions comes with a description of how/why we hear this illusion along with one or more samples.

A couple of these are cool, however several I just don’t get like the ‘Phantom melodies’.

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