Re:What's Up with All These Viral Illusions?
by 8ytecoder on Saturday May 19, 2018 @01:16PM
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I have an accent and when people repeat what they think they heard I'm usually blown away. It's totally not what I said at all. I repeat what I said to a friend and they'd understand it perfectly well because they are now used to my accent. So the researcher and the article are wrong in that sense. Our brain absolutely fills in the gap and a slight change in accent will throw it off balance.
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Re:What's Up with All These Viral Illusions?
by B1FF_PSUVM on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:46PM
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I've seen that in action. It's not only the accent, word choice also matters. Non-native speaker says something unusual, native speaker hears the nearest idiomatic phrase for the situation.
Brains make up a lot of stuff, not to mention the filtering already done before the signals travel there.
I’ve seen the things dementia brains can do to ignore the gaps in reality, and to build a consistent, but fake “reality”, and I wonder which kind of things, if any, is my brain trying to ignore right now, to keep also a consistent reality.