The debate originally sparked from this Tweet. What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel /jvHhCbMc8I- Cloe Feldman May 15, 2018Īlthough you may think you hear with your ears, you actually hear with your brain.Īudiologist, Dr. Kevin Franck, the director of audiology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear explained to Time why the population is divided on what word they hear. “Spoken language puts relatively arbitrary barriers around sound to turn it into very different meanings,” says Franck. “Factors that influence what we hear are the native languages we speak, where we grew up, and how our brain processes sound.” “Those boundaries could be drastically or subtly different for each of us.”įactors that influence what we hear are the native languages we speak, where we grew up, and how our brain processes sound. Nina Kraus from Northwestern University’s Brain Volts lab told National Geographic a similar explanation to what Franck said. “The way you hear sound is influenced by your life in sound-what you know about sound,” says Kraus.Īlso, the fact that you were expecting to hear either ‘yanny’ or ‘laurel’ also changes how you perceive what you hear.
“Much of what you hear, is about what you’re expecting to hear,” Krauss told NPR. Thoughts from the deaf and hard of hearing communityĪn audio debate over the internet affects the deaf and hard of hearing community in a different way. One of the most popular responses to this debate is from deaf actress and activist, Marlee Matlin. I can't hear sh*t- Marlee Matlin May 17, 2018ĭepending on the severity of a person’s hearing loss impacts whether they can even hear the audio clip. For people with milder hearing loss, the audio clip could be heard differently depending on whether or not you are wearing hearing aids.
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