Audio Illusions

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So far I have only come across Shepard-Risset Glissando. Does anyone know more audio illusions/tricks which boggle human brain?

Recently I came up with an applied version of Shepard-Risset tone by creating an audio illusion of a sound of a bottle never filling up... Here is the link http://tumblr.com/xrp1pvqqh9 and youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkXAng5fetk&hd=1

Would like to know if any of you are experimenting with auditory illusions?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '11 at 22:55

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Check out "Auditory Scene Analysis" by Al Bregman.

http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/Group2/abregm1/web/downloadstoc.htm

answered Mar 12 '11 at 22:55

MtL

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If you're curious, Bregman published a book called Auditory Scene Analysis. (I't s a big fat book, but the last chapter basically sums the whole book up into a digestable length.) – MtL Mar 13 '11 at 04:10

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 13 '11 at 00:18

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The McGurk effect is a pretty interesting trick. Wikipedia and Youtube

answered Mar 13 '11 at 00:18

Morten Green

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awesome...good audio/visual illusion – Rishi Dani Mar 13 '11 at 01:44

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 12 '11 at 23:11

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I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but I absolutely love the illusion of the "false center" created by a pair of evenly-spaced monitors.

answered Mar 12 '11 at 23:11

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To that I'd add the Haast Effect and the stereo widening techniques using delay/phase flipping. – Justin Huss Mar 15 '11 at 20:10
That reminds me, SHEPPi is awesome. (http://dallashodgson.info/articles/OpenAmbienceProject/) – Dave Matney Mar 15 '11 at 22:43

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 14 '11 at 03:12

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Check out the 'Franssen Effect' aswell!

answered Mar 14 '11 at 03:12

Fred Pearson

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 15 '11 at 20:00

Thanks guys... you have put up some good stuff to dig out there. Also this another audiorty illusion called Diana Deutsch's Scale Illusion is quite intriguing. I am planning to do an applied version of the illusion from sound design pespective...worth investigating I feel.

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