How sound becomes hearing
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The Mysterious Melodies of Yankee Doodle
Our brain is hearing what we expecting to hear. A lot of what we perceive isn't actually us hearing sound waves hit our eardrum, it's a prediction of what those waves should be. To illustrate this, diana uses something called the mysterious melody. This is a well known tune, but the notes are presented in different octaves. So instead of playing da rami in the same range with all the notes next to each other, you could play da remi with the notes jumping into a different range. When people go back and listen to the scrambled version, they can hear yankee doodle in there.
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