In the following audio clip, Jayatri Das, Chief Bioscientist at Franklin Institute Science Museum demonstrates how our brain uses additional information to make sense out of an otherwise unintelligible sound

This Audio Illusion is stunning!  Your brain uses visual information to make sense of the audio information it is receiving!  Even when you know what is going on, it doesn’t seem

A SHEPARD TONE is named after Roger Shepard (born 1929).  Technically, it is a sound created by a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves and where the bass tone either moves up

We are all acquainted with OPTICAL ILLUSIONS, illusions caused by the brain’s visual and perception systems playing tricks on us and characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality.