Editing Auditory illusion (section)

{{Short description|False perceptions of a real sound or outside stimulus}}
'''Auditory illusions''' are [[Illusion|illusions]] of real sound or outside stimulus.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1121/1.1981302|title=Auditory Illusions as Caused by Embedded Sounds|year=1972|last1=Scott|first1=Brian L.|last2=Cole|first2=Ronald A.|journal=The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America|volume=51|issue=1A|page=112|bibcode=1972ASAJ...51R.112S|doi-access=free}}</ref> These false perceptions are the equivalent of an [[optical illusion]]: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the [[Stimulus (physiology)|stimulus]], or sounds that should not be possible given the circumstance on how they were created.<ref>{{cite web |title=Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091125134655.htm |website=Science Daily |access-date=February 20, 2019}}</ref>

Humans are fairly susceptible to [[illusions]], despite an innate ability to process complex stimuli. Confirmation bias is believed to be largely responsible for the inaccurate judgments that people make when evaluating information, given that humans typically interpret and recall information that appeals to their own biases.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brundage|first=Steven|date=2016|title=Fooled By FLUENCY: UNDERSTANDING ILLUSIONS AND MISJUDGMENTS IN MUSIC LEARNING|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26385737|journal=American Music Teacher|volume=66|issue=2|pages=10–13|jstor=26385737|issn=0003-0112}}</ref> Amongst these misinterpretations, known as illusions, falls the category of auditory illusions. The brain uses multiple senses simultaneously to process information, 
spatial information is processed with greater detail and accuracy in vision than in hearing.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Guttman|first1=Sharon E.|last2=Gilroy|first2=Lee A.|last3=Blake|first3=Randolph|date=2005|title=Hearing What the Eyes See: Auditory Encoding of Visual Temporal Sequences|journal=Psychological Science|volume=16|issue=3|pages=228–235|doi=10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00808.x|jstor=40064206|pmid=15733204|pmc=1431611|issn=0956-7976}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=O'Callaghan|first=Casey|date=2011|title=Lessons from beyond vision (sounds and audition)|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41487621|journal=Philosophical Studies|volume=153|issue=1|pages=143–160|doi=10.1007/s11098-010-9652-7|jstor=41487621|s2cid=7486290|issn=0031-8116|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="deutsch">
{{cite journal|title=What Are Musical Paradox and Illusion?|journal=American Journal of Psychology|year=2007|volume=120|issue=1|pages=124, 132|url=http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/pdf/ben_carson_review_AJP.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/pdf/ben_carson_review_AJP.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=15 November 2013|editor1-first=Dominic W.|editor1-last=Massaro|publisher=University of California, Santa Cruz}}</ref>  Auditory illusions highlight areas where the [[human ear]] and [[human brain|brain]], as organic survival tools, differentiate from perfect [[audio recording|audio receptors]]; this shows that it is possible for a human being to hear something that is not there and be able to react to the sound they supposedly heard. When someone is experiencing an auditory illusion, their brain is falsely interpreting its surroundings and distorting their perception of the world around them.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=KAYSER|first=CHRISTOPH|date=2007|title=Listening with your Eyes|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24939602|journal=Scientific American Mind|volume=18|issue=2|pages=24–29|doi=10.1038/scientificamericanmind0407-24|jstor=24939602|issn=1555-2284|url-access=subscription}}</ref>