How Brain Waves Surf Sound Waves to Process Speech

Re:How Brain Waves Surf Sound Waves to Process Speech by beautifulfreak on Monday May 28, 2018 @07:43AM (#17171909)

I'm baffled by the video of a sound that can be heard as either "green needle" or "brainstorm," depending on which word one imagines while listening to it. They don't even have the same number of syllables. I'd like to know what's going on in the brain to create this auditory illusion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRY3wlKwm8

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Re:How Brain Waves Surf Sound Waves to Process Speech by codetrotter on Monday May 28, 2018 @09:30AM (#17172267)

First I heard brainstorm, then green needle and then brain needle, ha ha! Yeah that was weird!

Found a related video that talks a bit about this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDiXQl7grPQ

Also related is this one that I remember seeing on HN or Reddit a while back: https://soundcloud.com/whyy-the-pulse/an-audio-illusion. There is an article about that one as well at https://gizmodo.com/this-audio-illusion-will-make-you-never-... but I never bothered to read the article because I think the audio recording is sufficiently interesting in its own right.

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Re:How Brain Waves Surf Sound Waves to Process Speech by SketchySeaBeast on Monday May 28, 2018 @12:59PM (#17173444)

I tried to skipping immediately to the sound (0:02) that said the words and found that I couldn't hear "brainstorm" no matter how hard I tried, it seems like the whole noise needs to be heard to effectively reset and let the user hear the other word.

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