Diana Deutsch

Apr 16 2009

Speech to Song :: An Audio Illusion

Published by wnu under ::SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY::, ::WEIRD::

waves Listen to this clip in its entirety:

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Now listen to the original sentence again:

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Assuming you fall within a reasonable part of the bell curve of humans, you heard the woman abruptly sing “sometimes behave so strangely” in the middle of the phrase. Listen to it again…and again…you cannot escape the singsong interpretation of those words now.

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Tags: ::SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY::, ::WEIRD::, audio, audio illusion, diana deutsch, different trains, speech loops, speech to song, steve reich, ucsd

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