How we hear birds

[Paul Taylor <>]

There was a sonograph of sorts in one of the tweets in the article,
demonstrating what happens if you remove the high ("Yanny") or
low ("Laurel") frequencies:

https://twitter.com/MBoffin/status/996562598815416321

On 17/05/2018 7:20 PM, Carl Clifford wrote:
> At first, I heard Yanny, but as I let the recording loop, it first changed
> to Yaurel, the Laurel. I to would like to se a sonograph.
>
>
> On Thursday, May 17, 2018, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>
> > This thing is doing the rounds of Facebook, etc, at the moment - a
> > recording of a voice that sounds like it's saying either Laurel or Yanny
> > depending on how good your high frequency hearing is.
> >
> > http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-16/laurel-or-yanny-
> > what-you-hear-could-depend-on-hearing-loss/9768478
> >
> > If different people can hear such different things from one recording, is
> > it any wonder the bird call descriptions in field guides don't make sense
> > to everyone?
> >
> > Peter Shute
> >
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