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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have long debated how we perceive the absence of sound waves hitting our ears. DrPixel via Getty Images From the roar of a crowd to the quiet of a library, sound and silence might seem like ...

Recently I've run across several interesting examples of audio illusions that demonstrate how the ear/brain combination can be easily fooled. For example, a web page on audio paradoxes includes ...

Are you old enough to remember the “Magic Eye” optical illusion mania that gripped the nation in the 90’s—random patterns that you had to squint at just right for the 3D image to pop out? It turns out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A baffling audio clip is proving divisive online, as no one can quite agree on what they're hearing. A brainteaser, similar to the Yanny vs Laurel debate a few years ago, is sweeping the internet ...

I just found Meara O’Reily’s tremendous and long-running Tumblr of audio illusions. At the top is one of my favorite aural phenomena: The shepherd scale. You can listen to an example here: The ...