SciShow Psych: Why Can I Hear This .gif?

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Certain people can hear particular animated gifs despite them containing no audio information, and scientists have some leads on what might cause this seemingly impossible phenomenon. The gif mentioned in the video: https://twitter.com/LisaDeBruine/status/937105553968566272 Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: AAdam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-some-people-hear-silent-gifs-180968537/ https://twitter.com/lisadebruine/status/937302328184594432 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810016303336?via%3Dihub https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2FBF03202611 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945218300741 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16269367 https://digest.bps.org.uk/2013/10/28/when-orgasm-triggers-a-light-show-the-first-ever-study-of-synaesthetic-sex/ https://www.audiology.org/news/notes-acoustic-middle-ear-reflex https://vula.uct.ac.za/access/content/group/27b5cb1b-1b65-4280-9437-a9898ddd4c40/Acoustic%20_stapedius_%20reflexes.pdf http://www.cochlea.org/en/hearing/ear https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444626301000184 https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn_a_01395


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