Do acoustic illusions exist? Musicians can detect them.

Research from the University of Padua shows that music practice is associated with changes in perceptive mechanisms.

Results of the test phase. (a) Average error percentage and (b) average absolute responses of musicians and
non-musicians in relation to the arrangement of the stimuli (piano notes ordered in one
grouping, ordered in two smaller groups or randomly distributed). On average, non
musicians showed a higher underestimation of 16 piano notes when these were
randomly distributed.

Studying music can influence the development of certain cognitive abilities such as, for example, linguistic, spatial and mathematical skills. Researchers from the Department of…