Until recently, auditory illusions have been miscontrued and ultimately haven't been researched in the proper way. In July of 2011, the auditory illusion of continuity was tested by using several different variables in different situations. The study showed that the sound would more likely be labeled as continuous if was preceded by an adapater. These results confirmed that auditory illusions can be influneced by preceeding events, and the aftereffects have both "sensory and decisional effects." One can elaborate that one of the main ideas with auditory illusion is our attention. With background noise in place, and the conversations of others, one can conclude that humans become easily distracted. This can cause us to slip up on the recolection of what we heard. [1] [2]
While humans experience auditory illusions when a noise perceeds a sound, frogs react much differently. Frogs use auditory calls when looking for a mate. When the researchers added noise before they made the call, instead of being confused, the calls appeared more "attractive". This research shows that auditory illusions are unique to humans, and is not relevant in all species of animal.
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External visual distractions can add to auditory illusions. When testing this hypothesis, researchers used hand motions and other visual distractions while still using auditory illusions, this resulted in multiple temporal levels are "employed for facilitating temporal orginsation and intergration by the human brain." [4]
- ^ L., Micheyl, C., Vanbussel, M., Schreiner, C., Mendelsohn, D., & Formisano, E. (2011). Recalibration of the auditory continuity illusion: sensory and decisional effects. Hearing Research, 277(1-2), 152-162.
- ^ Heinrich, A., Carlyon, R. P., Davis, M. H., & Johnsrude, I. S. (2011). The Continuity Illusion Does Not Depend on Attentional State: fMRI Evidence from Illusory Vowels. Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 2375-2389.
- ^ F., Schwartz, J. J., & Bee, M. A. (2010). Testing an auditory illusion in frogs: perceptual restoration or sensory bias?. Animal Behaviour, 79(6), 1317-1328.
- ^ Madison, G. (2009). An Auditory Illusion of Infinite Tempo Change Based on Multiple Temporal Levels. Plos ONE, 4(12), 1-7. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008151