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This type of misperception is true to an extent with all our senses. We've all seen visual illusions, or you might remember the debate around the s. Diana eventually found that the various ways our brain edits the world, they're not just due to hard, coated differences like whether you're right or left handed. Brain editing can vary from person to person based on life experience.

In the same way optical illusions trick our eyes, audio illusions can trick our ears. This raises a fundamental question: What is hearing, and how much of it is made up by our brains?

This is the first episode of our new six-part series, Making Sense.

You can find more of Diana Deutsch’s auditory illusions at https://bit.ly/3Mdh6H4, Matthew Winn's research at http://www.mattwinn.com/Research.html, and Mike Chorost's writing at https://michaelchorost.com

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