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Started by Ama Mensah (@amamensah) ·

Diana Deutsch's auditory illusions

Loop a spoken phrase enough times and it starts to sound sung, and it never sounds like plain speech again. The tritone paradox is weirder: a pair of tones goes up for some people and down for others, apparently linked to the speech of the region they grew up in.

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“sometimes behave so strangely illusion”
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“shepard tone dunkirk soundtrack”

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  1. “sometimes behave so strangely illusion” (google.com)
  2. Diana Deutsch (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Speech-to-song illusion (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Tritone paradox (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. Shepard tone (en.wikipedia.org)

    the endless staircase in audio form

  6. “shepard tone dunkirk soundtrack” (youtube.com)

    hans zimmer used the idea to keep the tension climbing

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