Flutterby™! : Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing

This morning's wet stormy walk to work was accompanied by the Unexplainable podcast episode "Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing". I've obviously done the usual things with synthesizers, like trying to create Shepard's scales and ambiguous tri-tones, but it was really cool trying to map the descriptions of some of the "most people hear this as" stereo effects to what I was hearing, and to hear about some of how people who get cochlear implants after losing their hearing learn how to map speech and hearing back on to their new inputs.

Some good reminders that we map our senses to internal models, and process those inputs in very different and varied ways.

I got the episode through the Switched on Pop feed, but there's an embedded link in Vox — What science still doesn’t know about the five senses: Our senses create our reality. They can trick us, but also teach us.