An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the sound equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds.

Examples of auditory illusions:

• the Shepard tone or scale, and the Deutsch tritone paradox
• hearing a missing fundamental frequency, given other parts of the harmonic series
• Streaming
• Octave illusion/Deutsch's High-Low Illusion
• Deutsch's scale illusion
• Glissando illusion
• Illusory continuity of tones
• Doppler effect
• please add more to this list

See also:

• Psychoacoustics

External links

• Demonstrations of various auditory illusions at Kyushu Institute of Design
• Diana Deutsch's Web Page

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