Your brain is really good at pattern finding, but as demonstrated in the audio clip below, sometimes it needs a gentle push in the right direction. Speech that has been garbled incomprehensibly suddenly becomes comprehensible once your brain knows what its listening for.
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by WHYY The Pulse,
via BoingBoing.
Tags: audio, gibberish, illusion, neuroscience, speech, WHYY