Auditory illusion
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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. 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
- 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
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See also
- Auditory system
- Barber pole -- auditory illusions compared to visual illusions
- Doppler effect – not an illusion, but real physical phenomenon
- Holophonics
- Pitch circularity
- Psychoacoustics
- Tinnitus
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