
How sound becomes hearing
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How the Brain Edits Our Hearing to Help Navigate the Real World
In the real world, one would assume that sounds in a higher pitch range are coming from one source. But Diana's allusion is explicitly designed to fool the brain into making a wrong guess. Left handers likelier than other people to hear high tones on the left or even weirder ways. Top down processing occurs when the brain usesex ation, experience and also various principles of perceptual organization to influence what is perceived.
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