Janni or Laurel: the new sound illusion has caused a stir in the Network

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The essence of the illusion is the frequency of sound.

In the Internet appeared the new illusion with sound. This time, some users can hear on the audio recordings of the name Yanni, and the other Laurel.

What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel pic.twitter.com/jvHhCbMc8I

— Cloe Feldman (@CloeCouture) 15 may 2018 R.

Audio illusion appeared on Reddit and immediately divided the users into two camps. Some hear the name Jenny, and the other Laurel.

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To explain this anomaly in an interview with The Verge tried a specialist in auditory and cognitive neuroscience Lars Rica.

The essence of the illusion is the frequency of sound. Acoustic information, which makes people hear Yanni has a higher frequency than the one that needs to hear Laurel.

In some cases, users can hear one or the other option just because of the peculiarities of his equipment- headphones or computer sound card.

Adults eventually lose sensitivity to high frequencies, therefore, can only hear Laurel. At the same time, the children hear all frequencies, so it may seem that in the record, pronounced Yanni.

People who catch and high and low frequencies equally, will occasionally hear the same recording for both.

5 Feb 2015 the girl under the nickname Swiked posted on Tumblr a picture of the dress and asked my friends a simple question about what color it is. The question of color raised on the ears of almost the whole world. To explain the color of the dress came from scientists.

Janni or Laurel: the new sound illusion has caused a stir in the Network

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