Rather than creating a beat before it reaches your ear, you’re in fact hearing the beat because of the frequencies interacting with your brain. Pretty cool.Ī binaural beat is an illusion that’s produced when two different tones are played separately into each ear. This illusion works because your brain has heard the real song before so seeks out the pattern of the lyrics in the synthesised version. But, in fact, it’s just a bunch of synthesised piano notes. Though a little clunky, if you listen to this video it very much sounds like you can hear the words to Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees. By feeding in different sounds to each ear, this video really makes you feel like you’re in a barbershop. Like one of those virtual theme park rides or a haunted house, this illusion demonstrates our ability to locate sound in space. But when you close your eyes and listen again, you’ll realise it’s the same sound each time. In this video, it looks/sounds like the man is saying “ba” then “va” then “da” because of how he’s moving his mouth. This phenomenon exploits what we see to affect what we hear. Oh, and all of these work best with headphones. Read more: Do you hear ‘Yanny’ or ‘Laurel’? This weird sound illusion is tearing the internet apartĪnd if you just can’t get enough of these freaky auditory illusions, here’s five more – along with a handy explanation. But scientists weighed in with some compelling explanations. No-one could agree on what the strange audio clip of a computer-generated voice, which first appeared on Reddit, was saying. I am of course talking about the great ‘Laurel vs Yanny’ debate. It split brother from brother, friend from friend and left entire households forever divided.
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