Illusory continuity of tones
Have you ever heard a song that seemed like it was just one long tone, but really it was made up of lots of little tones all put together? That's called illusory continuity of tones, which means that our brains hear something as one continuous sound, even if it's made up of smaller, different sounds.
Think about it like a puzzle with all different pieces. When you put them all together, it creates one big picture. The same thing happens with sound. Our brains can take lots of different sounds and put them together to make one bigger sound - this is called "illusion" because it's not really one long sound, but just our brain making sense of lots of little sounds put together.
Our ears and brain work together to make it seem like the sound is always there, even if there's really lots of different parts to it. So when you listen to a song or hear a sound that seems like it's one long tone, remember that it might just be an illusion and there are lots of different sounds put together to create it!
Think about it like a puzzle with all different pieces. When you put them all together, it creates one big picture. The same thing happens with sound. Our brains can take lots of different sounds and put them together to make one bigger sound - this is called "illusion" because it's not really one long sound, but just our brain making sense of lots of little sounds put together.
Our ears and brain work together to make it seem like the sound is always there, even if there's really lots of different parts to it. So when you listen to a song or hear a sound that seems like it's one long tone, remember that it might just be an illusion and there are lots of different sounds put together to create it!