Sentence examples for audio illusion from inspiring English sources

The department contends that the tape is a kind of audio illusion, with the provocative-sounding sections actually best understood as jokes, sarcastic remarks or, in the case of the racial slur, simply inappropriate language.

In much the same way that spoken language is actually a continuous stream of sound (perceived gaps between words are, in most cases, an audio illusion), so the language of gestures to pilots is also continuous, with one flowing seamlessly into the next.

This audio illusion — called phantom phone rings or, more whimsically, ringxiety or fauxcellarm — has emerged recently as an Internet discussion topic and has become a new reason for people to either bemoan the techno-saturation of modern life or question their sanity.

They are just being fooled by audio illusions that take us all in.

Thirty-eight observers aged 5 to 19 were tested on the McGurk effect (an audio-visual illusion involving speech), the Illusory Flash effect and the Fusion effect (two audio-visual illusions not involving speech) to investigate the development of audio-visual interactions and contrast speech vs. non-speech developmental patterns.

This audio-visual illusion also demonstrates the dominance of audition in a temporally demanding task.

In addition to replicating the audio-visual illusion, we found that participants were less influenced by the illusion when their limb was moving at high velocities.

We hypothesized that the perceptual effects of the audio-visual illusion would be influenced by the real-time characteristics of the voluntary action.

Here, we used the audio-visual illusion to demonstrate that goal-directed movements can alter visual information processing in real-time.

Participants (n = 14) quickly moved their right index finger towards a small visual target and the presentation of 1 or 2 flashes accompanied with 1 or 2 auditory beeps (i.e. audio-visual illusion stimuli [5]) started at 0 ms, 50 ms, 100 ms, 150 ms, or 200 ms relative to movement onset.

Thus, prior to the present investigation, non-speech audio-visual illusions have only been observed in a spatiotemporal task where audition biases vision.