A visual delusion with… acoustic effect
We all know that GIFs, that is, animations, are necessarily silent.
And yet, countless are now coming out from all over the world and telling us that this particular GIF can be heard.
To see…
Does anyone in visual perception know why you can hear this gif? pic.twitter.com/mcT22Lzfkp
- Lisa DeBruine 🏳️🌈 (@lisadebruine) December 2, 2017
Does anyone in visual perception know why you can hear this gif? pic.twitter.com/mcT22Lzfkp
- Lisa DeBruine 🏳️🌈 (@lisadebruine) December 2, 2017
Although there is no sound to accompany the animation, they all swear that they hear something every time the pillar returns to the ground.
Despite the fact that this GIF has been circulating for a long time, it was a scientist who brought it back to social media last week. Dr Lisa DeBruine of the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow posted it on Twitter when most people confessed that they actually hear a sound every time a pillar lands on the ground.
"I do not know why some people hear it so clearly," DeBruine told the BBC. "Some just feel it and some do not take anything at all. "Some deaf people and people with hearing problems reported all three situations, as did people with imagination."
"I suspect the GIF phenomenon is closely linked to what we call the visually induced sound response, the ability of some people to hear moving objects despite making no sound," Chris Fassnidge, a PhD student in psychology at City University, told the BBC. who is researching this…
Do you hear it?