The picture depicted a seemingly-colour changing dress – some people saw it as white and gold, while others saw it as blue and black.īack in 2017, the internet became obsessed with another item of clothing – this time a pink and white or green and grey shoe. The debate harks back to 2015’s ‘The Dress’, which saw the internet become obsessed with the colour-changing, optical illusion. 1 These false perceptions are the equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or sounds that should not be possible given the circumstance on how they were created. “All of this goes to highlight just how much the brain is an active interpreter of sensory input, and thus that the external world is less objective than we like to believe.” Auditory illusions are false perceptions of a real sound or outside stimulus. 1 B and C).The tone’s frequency was logarithmically increased from 1 to 3 kHz and its amplitude was pulsed at 2 Hz, resulting in an ascending sweep which was repeatedly interrupted by silence.For experiment 1 (Fig. 1 A) consisting of a tone sweep, white noise, or both (Fig. “The Yanny/Laurel sound is meant to be ambiguous because each sound has a similar timing and energy content – so in principle it’s confusable. An auditory scene was simulated by stimuli of 5000-ms duration (Fig. Speaking to The Guardian, Professor David Alais from the University of Sydney’s school of psychology said the audio illusion is due to the brain because it “flips back and forth between the two interpretations”.

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