Music:Auditory illusion
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_illusion
An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the aural equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds.[1] In short, auditory 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:
- hearing a missing fundamental frequency, given other parts of the harmonic series
- Various psychoacoustic tricks of lossy Audio compression
- Binaural beats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats
- Deutsch's scale illusion
- Glissando illusion
- Illusory continuity of tones
- McGurk effect
- Octave illusion/Deutsch's High-Low Illusion
- Phantom rings
- the Shepard tone or scale, and the Deutsch tritone paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
