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Diana Deutsch¹, Trevor Henthorn, Rachael Lapidis

¹Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. ddeutsch@ucsd.edu

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Repeatedly hearing a spoken phrase can create an auditory illusion, making it sound like singing. This speech-to-song illusion occurs with identical repetitions, not with altered or jumbled phrases.

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Area of Science:

Auditory Perception
Cognitive Psychology
Speech Processing

Background:

The human auditory system is adept at processing speech and music.
Perceptual transformations can occur with repeated auditory stimuli.
Understanding the boundaries between speech and song perception is key.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the speech-to-song auditory illusion.
To determine the conditions under which this perceptual shift occurs.
To analyze the acoustic properties of vocalizations during the illusion.

Main Methods:

Experiment I: Participants rated auditory phrases presented 10 times on a speech-to-song scale.
Experiment I: Variations included identical, transposed, or jumbled phrase repetitions.
Experiment II: Participants repeated phrases after single or multiple presentations.

Main Results:

Identical repetitions of a spoken phrase led to judgments shifting from speech to song.
Transposed or jumbled repetitions did not induce the speech-to-song illusion.
Repeated exposure (10x) resulted in participants vocalizing the phrase melodically, resembling song.

Conclusions:

The speech-to-song illusion is robust and dependent on stimulus consistency.
Auditory adaptation and pattern formation play critical roles in this perceptual phenomenon.
The study reveals insights into the neural mechanisms distinguishing speech from musicality.