Auditory illusion

Auditory illusion

An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the sound equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds.

Examples of auditory illusions:

the Shepard tone or scale, and the Deutsch tritone paradox
hearing a missing fundamental frequency, given other parts of the harmonic series
Streaming
Octave illusion/Deutsch's High-Low Illusion
Deutsch's scale illusion
Glissando illusion
Illusory continuity of tones
Doppler effect
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External links

Demonstrations of various auditory illusions at Kyushu Institute of Design
Diana Deutsch's Web Page