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Science 15 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5499, pp. 2051 - 2052
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5499.2051b
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NEUROPSYCHOLOGY:
Language Affects Sound Perception

Charles Seife

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA--At the 140th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America here last week, a psychologist demonstrated that an auditory illusion based on the tritone--two notes a half-octave apart played together--is perceived differently by listeners with different linguistic histories. And those perceptions might help psychologists understand how the brain rewires itself during childhood.

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