Noam Hassenfeld

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4,661 appearances 106 recordings 15 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 2d ago

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Unexplainable · Are you a lyric person or a music person? · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

If you hear a song, any kind of sound really, it can seem like we're all just listening to the same thing, right?

If you hear a noise, you and I might assume we're hearing the same thing, but I've done a lot of reporting showing that our brain isn't just, you know, hearing a sound that exists out in the world, it's editing the sound, it's processing it in a unique way, and it's almost having a sort of performance in your brain.

And what happens is that we end up processing sounds in actually pretty different ways.

Or do you hear the same color orange I hear?

Right.

So basically, this is what we're getting at when we talk about, okay, we're both listening to...

Billy Bragg and Wilco.

And we're kind of hearing different things.

Whoa.

We're not just focusing on different parts.

We are hearing different things.

And here's what I mean.

I talked to this psychologist, Diana Deutsch, a few years ago.

She does tons of great research on audio perception.

And she has this great example of how we hear things differently.

Like the same things.

We hear things differently.

So this is an audio illusion she made that listeners might have heard on the show before.

But this is called the tritone paradox.

And I want to just play you this one.

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