Noam Hassenfeld
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It's your brain editing the world you hear.
And the thing is, what sounds in tinnitus like it might be a problem, it's actually a necessary way that our brain works in order to let us hear anything at all.
So imagine a waveform, right?
If you just look at a waveform, it's just going to be a blob of sound.
But it's got maybe a word in there.
The world is just a big blob of sound.
And somehow our brain can pick out bird song, word, car honk.
And it's because our brain can edit this waveform blob of sound.
And you can actually hear your brain doing this editing in real time.
So I talked to Diana Deutsch, who's this psychology professor at UC San Diego.
And she likes to study all these weird ways our brain edits the world.
These weird kind of audio glitches.
She loves to research audio illusions.