Auditory Perception: Laurel and Yanny Together at Last

Daniel Pressnitzer (), Jackson Graves, Claire Chambers, Vincent de Gardelle and Paul Egré ()
Additional contact information
Daniel Pressnitzer: LSP - Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs - DEC - Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS-PSL - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jackson Graves: LSP - Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs - DEC - Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS-PSL - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Claire Chambers: LSP - Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs - DEC - Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS-PSL - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paul Egré: LSP - Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs - DEC - Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS-PSL - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL

Abstract: An auditory illusion caught the world's attention recently. For the same noisy speech utterance, different people reported hearing either ‘Laurel' or ‘Yanny'. The dichotomy highlights how perceptions are inferences from inherently ambiguous sensory information, even though ambiguity is often unnoticed.

Keywords: Gene; ontology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-07
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Current Biology, 2018, 28 (13), pp.R739-R741. ⟨10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.002⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Working Paper: Auditory Perception: Laurel and Yanny Together at Last (2018)
Working Paper: Auditory Perception: Laurel and Yanny Together at Last (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:pseptp:hal-01907506

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.002

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Caroline Bauer ().