Auditory Perception: Laurel and Yanny Together at Last

An auditory illusion caught the world's attention recently. For the same noisy speech utterance, different people reported hearing either 'Laurel' or 'Yanny'. The dichotomy highlights how perceptions are inferences from inherently ambiguous sensory information, even though ambiguity is often unnoticed.

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