Sonic Illusions: Can you really trust your ears?
Twenty Thousand Hertz
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What Do You Think You're Hearing?
When Diana discovered her very first illusion, she was baffled by her own experience. Your brain has to rely on its prior knowledge about the world and different assumptions that it makes in order to figure out how to interpret this information. There's only a smaller number of illusions that are actually due to the biology of how the cells in our sensory systems are structured. But when biology does influence the illusion, it can be confusing.
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