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The speech to song illusion
This curious phenomenon means that when certain spoken phrases are repeated, they turn into music. Diana Deutsch, a professor of psychology at the University of California and the scientist who discovered the illusion, explain why.
(Image: Woman singing, Credit: Getty Images.)
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