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How the brain builds your world of sound

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03.11.2025

In the 1970s, psychologist Diana Deutsch was experimenting with a synthesizer, when she heard something strange. “It seemed to me that I’d entered another universe or I’d gone crazy or something…the world had just turned upside down!” Deutsch recalls.

Deutsch had stumbled across an illusion in audio form — she called it the “Octave Illusion” and you can listen to it

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