( Here is a very good, more detailed explanation from Styles.) Essentially, the sounds coming from the clip would indicate a voice moving in a way voices do not. McCulloch explained these “format bands” to me, and it’s quite technical. Shall we call it an Ear-llusion? /QkwM2slJVQ- Suzy J Styles May 16, 2018 So unless this speaker had two completely separate tongues, this ambiguous speech has been carefully crafted to fool the ears. What sounds the brain computes is hugely influenced and aided by what it sees. In the video below, a man is saying “bar, bar, bar,” but changes his lip movement at one point to make it look like he’s making an F-sound and saying “far.” The audio was never changed, but the brain sees the F-sound shape and inserts the word “far” on its own, overriding what the ears hear. A 2014 AsapSCIENCE video explains the McGurk effect, which is when the brain will alter what it hears based on what it sees. ![]() ![]() Still, it’s not only the inability to isolate a sound that makes this illusion brain-busting. The sound can’t be isolated into shorter moments the way a photo can be zoomed in. It’s true: The nature of a sound bite makes this debate feel, as she put it, more “slippery.” A sound can be paused, but that introduces silence or an absence of the sound. Whereas visual illusions can stay static while you examine them or zoom in on them or cover parts of them, so it feels more like you’re in control,” she says. (McCulloch, for the record, hears Laurel on her computer and Yanny on her phone.) “Audio illusions necessarily exist within time - you have to play the audio clip over and over again to experience them. ![]() Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explains why this audio illusion-which appears to have a resolution that The Dress never had-feels equally divisive and possibly more maddening. I was originally on Team Yanny, but have switched to I-can’t-hear-anything-else Team Laurel. The Yannys out there can’t hear “Laurel,” and they’re losing their minds. Yet the Yanny-versus-Laurel debate plays on, leading to an unending replay of the clip. Popular Science had an expert analyze the waveform of the spoken name and found that it lines up much more closely to the waveform of the word “Laurel.” The evidence appears (heh) sound. Unlike in the case of The Dress, a consensus exists. What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel /jvHhCbMc8I- Cloe Feldman May 15, 2018 The clip originally came from Reddit (of course), where it was posted May 12, and is indeed a recording of the word “laurel.” It went viral after social media influencer Cloe Feldman tweeted it. There’s a very good breakdown of the science behind the clip here. To some it says “Yanny,” and to others it’s “Laurel.” What you hear depends on a lot of factors, including (but likely not limited to) how old you are, whether you’re playing the clip from your phone or laptop speakers, and your brain’s historical and subjective interpretation and history with language and phonetics. A looped sound bite circulated on social media. Three years later, the next sensory illusion has arrived, and this time it’s auditory. ![]() Also that day, some llamas came along and took us for a wild ride! Laptops everywhere were turned into Magic Eye posters as people tried to see the other side. On February 26, 2015, the internet lost its collective mind trying to decide if The Dress (capital T, capital D) was black and blue or white and gold.
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