CAN YOU TELL when you’ve suddenly and accidentally broken into song? When you say, “I don’t know,” does it sound like a melody that you can hum? Why does a spoken word, when repeated over and over, ...

Read each phrase and see if you hear something different🤯 Did it work for you? #braingames #braingame #greenneedlebrainstorm #psychologytricks A viral video has left TikTok users baffled, as ...

In auditory illusion tests, people perceive silence as a form of sound, just as Simon and Garfunkel suggested. By Bethany Brookshire The hush at the end of the musical performance. The pause in a ...

A short phrase of speech in Diana Deutsch’s mellifluous voice, with its faded English accent, loops over and over from the loudspeakers in her sparse, windowless sound studio. “Sometimes behave so ...

A silent animation that tricks the brain into “hearing” a sound has caused a stir on TikTok. The short clip shows an electricity pylon jumping over power lines like a skipping rope, causing the screen ...

Silence might not be deafening but it’s something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...

Neuroscientists and sound designers explain the Shepard tone—an auditory illusion that makes listeners feel like they're flying or sinking. By Alison Nastasi Published Aug 11, 2022 9:00 AM EDT Get the ...

The trick is a surprising instance of mammal-snake coevolution. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The menacing rattle of a ...

Thomas Steed, owner and financier of Polygamy Productions, has simple things to say about the first installment of his two-part music and sound festival, Illusions in Sound: “People loved it. It was ...

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