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Your brain interprets sound as a visual flash.
A 2000 study demonstrated that hearing multiple beeps can trick you into seeing a single flash as multiple flashes.
This phenomenon, the sound-induced flash illusion, shows that your senses do not function independently. When visual data is ambiguous, the brain prioritizes auditory signals to fill the gaps. The hearing system captures the timing of the events and overrides the visual cortex's report.
Your eyes are not the ultimate authority on what you see.
Where this comes from
- Study
- sound-induced flash illusion
- What the check found
- The 2000 study by Shams, Kamitani, and Shimojo in Nature confirmed this effect, known as the sound-induced flash illusion.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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