Your perception of loudness bends to what you know, according to fascinating new psychology research | NYGazet

A new study finds that people hear familiar words as louder than nonsense words, even when both are equally loud. The results suggest that our brains rely on language knowledge to shape how we perceive even simple qualities like sound intensity.

A new study published in the Journal of Cognition provides evidence that what we know influences what we hear. Researchers found that when people listened to pairs of words and nonsense words spoken at the same volume, they tended to judge the real w... [8650 chars]