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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.
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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.
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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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