Sine-wave speech can be thought of as a sort of auditory illusion, a sensory edge case in which one’s experience has a clear “before” and “after” moment, like going through a one-way door.

We’re all familiar with different optical illusions. In Auditory Illusions, Trevor Cox investigates sounds that trick the ear to find out how they are used in music. Here are the five best ...

Sine-wave speech can be thought of as a sort of auditory illusion, a sensory edge case in which one’s experience has a clear “before” and “after” moment, like going through a one-way door.

Sometimes the experience of reality is distorted and results in so-called visual and auditory illusions. We will learn how the brain works by exploring the conditions under which certain visual and ...

with the essence of the challenge lying in crafting illusions that speak through sound alone, without the aid of language.” To create a purely auditory experience, magicians must avoid relying ...

Comparable illusions are observed in the auditory domain for tones 2 and phonemes 3,4; humans can understand the meaning of a word even if a phoneme within the word is masked with noise.

This auditory illusion is called a binaural beat. For example, if a person hears a tone of 405 Hz in one ear and a tone of 415 Hz in the other, they would be hearing a binaural beat with a ...

"The key takeaway is that we were able to disrupt auditory perception by creating a simple illusion in the representation of the body in space," added Paromov. "This indicates a reciprocal ...