Yanny or Laurel?

[Rimcoin]

I'm french and I heard yarrel is it possible?

[notbatman]

I'm french and I heard yarrel is it possible?

If you have to ask then the answer is no.

[CoinCowgirl]

I hear laurel and the dress looks white/gold to me My husband hear also laurel, but het says that the dress was brown-purple. !?

[CaptainCaptcha]

These have always amused me because I've always wondered how do people get the other result. Even if I try I don't get it. I hear Yanny but I always suspected that it's because I saw the name "yanny" first, and with the dress I only see white with a slight tint of purple and gold

[okla_4]

Yanny. I thought this is because i'm not a native English speaker, but my dad is and he says it sounds as Laurel. Btw, the dress is Y&W

[jormo]

when i first heard it, i heard yanny but after that i kept replaying it and only here laurel

[MCJamison1987]

i clearly hear "YANNY" and that dress is white and gold

[ch4rlesdickerson]

In fact, the record contains only one name - Laurel, and the other is just an illusion, a kind of side effect of the work of our hearing aid and brain.

Professor Brad Story of the University of Arizona, an expert on speech, languages ​​and hearing aids, conducted a small investigation, during which the only correct name was found.
The pronounced word "Yanni" has about the same wave characteristic as the "Laurel". His wave also looks "up-down-up", but only with slightly different acoustic characteristics. The poor quality of recording and a few superimposed frequencies above 4.5 kHz is the reason that some people hear the word "Yanni".

Also, the human brain plays a big role here. You hear what you expect to hear.

The brain is always trying to reduce energy costs, which means it is easier for him to recognize the sound you already know, than to decipher the new one.

Do not forget about the function of filtering sounds: a man can adjust to the waves he needs. For example, in a noisy cafe, we can listen to the words of friends sitting at the table, or we can overhear the conversation behind our backs. So it is with frequencies: from the already existing experience, the brain chooses which focus to concentrate on.

Some people can also hear the names of Yanni and Laurel at the same time, since their brain expects high frequencies, but it is also ready for low frequencies.

Finally, conduct a simple experiment: listen in order two audio recordings.

The recording under the name Noisy will seem to you some kind of unpleasant screech without any sense. When you listen to the second, clean record, go back to the first one. Now distinguish between a voice among seemingly meaningless gnashes? That's how the brain works: he hears the already known and expected

[stvemric]

as rimcoin sad i hear yarrel, there is no L in the beginning!

[orren]

Laurel

[Tres_row]

Yanny, but all my roommates hear Laurel. Weird sound.

[Ryan77]

Yanny is most familiar

[Winterwood21]

my ears feels bad, i think i heard yaurell

[vabalkazh]

Laulel.

[Faturanews]

yenny

[Antonina]

the same illusion of illusion as with the dress. I do not understand how they do it. I heard two different names at different times of the day

[kudryas]

Coral? (TWD) 

Now seriously I only her Laurel although I replayed it several times. Interesting stuff.

[notbatman]

First it was "The Dress" on Tumblr, then the sensational "Laurel and Yanni" on Twitter, now stepping out form a dark corner of Reddit I present, "The Shoe".







Most people see grey & teal, some folks see a pink & white, while personally I see a pink & teal. What colour is this shoe?

[loismanny88]

First it was "The Dress" on Tumblr, then the sensational "Laurel and Yanni" on Twitter, now stepping out form a dark corner of Reddit I present, "The Shoe".



https://i.imgur.com/3891H6T.jpg



Most people see grey & teal, some folks see a pink & white, while personally I see a pink & teal. What colour is this shoe?

Pink? 

I see grey shoe with green shoelaces.

[zooom007]

I heard Yanny at first, then got my brain to hear Laurel, but I couldn't switch back..