Everyone's familiar with optical illusions, of course, but I'd never heard of auditory illusions until I came across an article devoted to Diana Deutsch's work on the subject in a back issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Here is Deutsch's site, at which you can hear seven of her auditory illusions.
Here is a site where you can buy Deutsch's CDs, Phantom Words and Other Curiosities and Musical Illusions and Paradoxes.
I don't have either of them yet, but I intend to get both of them in the near future.
Anybody familiar with her work? After doing a bit more digging, I'm surprised I haven't heard of her before; there have been a number of articles in the various science magazines I read that discuss her research into the relationship between speech and music.
I had an auditory illusion once. Everything sounded like a baby crying when my baby was getting treatment at the hospital. The one I remember is clattering silverware sounding like a baby crying.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
That's really interesting pooka! Fascinating, really. How long did the effect last?
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I think they used an auditory illusion in that Senses quiz we did last week -- the question about two notes in the scale.
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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I didn't get that question; maybe I'll have to take the quiz again.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
That wasn't strictly auditory, though, was it? It tricked the auditory sense by using the visual sense. I wonder if it would work as well without the visual component, just as a note sequence?
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