Music special: Five great auditory illusions

[SgtFury]

New scientist story about audio illusions.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel...tory-illusions-.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

The first one is the best Virtual Barber Shop and needs to be listened to with stereo headphones.

It freaked me out a few times and send shivers up my spine.

 

[Nanor]

Haha, that is amazing! I heard about this. God I could tell where he was.

 

[thatbloke]

My friend has that virtual barbershop on his phone so I've heard it already.

But as you mention that there are 5, I'll check em out when i get home

 

[VibroAxe]

THats actually incredible! Can't believe how good the barber shop one is. Arn't we just wonderfull pieces of engineering!

 

[DocBot]

The article is wrong on the barber shop thing (I believe). It isn't enough to just have a difference in volume, you must also have a differing "time of arrival" (up to a few milliseconds), so to speak, to get an illusion that convincing. Although I do think they mention that in the actual clip.

 

[Traxata]

http://trevor.ucsd.edu/wav/Phantom_Words_Track_06.wav

What did you hear when you listened to that?


read my spoiler afterwards so you can type what yours is first

Spoiler

I heard "Nowhere" and "Noway"

 

[DocBot]

Not much, really. I guess it works better if english is your native language?

 

[decky101]

Nowhere and noway is what I heard trax, and seemingly that's what you heard too . Anyway, the barber shop one was very very cool and I found myself squirming at points. :O Anyone else feel the same effect?

I also found it strange that me (a leftie ) supposedly feel a differing effect on some of the melodies. Bizarre!