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Current-Ad6521 t1_j8hntmc wrote

No, for example -people often hear a thudding type noise when they see something that looks like it is landing hard and causing vibration but not actually making noise

If you know about the concept of neuroplasticity -it has an effect on what noises we hear and causes what are kind of illusions. Native Hindi speakers can discern two different 'd' noises that sound the same to people who did not grow up hearing Hindi. English speakers can very easily discern the words "pen" and "pin" but many language speakers dissimilar to English cannot. German people who did not grow up hearing English (which today is essentially none of them) often could not perceive "th" sounds -if you've heard stereotypical German accents where "the" is pronounced like "ze", it is based on this -back in the day German people usually couldn't hear th sounds

If you've ever heard someone trying to learn a language or tried to learn a language yourself and just not been able to get certain sounds right -this is often why. When the brain did not grow connections to be able to perceive certain sounds, you cannot hear them and your brain creates an illusion of a sound you do know.

There are also tons of visual illusions that we perceive 24/7 the time but do not notice

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