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Can you hear the strains of an imaginary Bing Crosby? - New Scientist

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14 December 2022
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Josie Ford

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A recent study builds on more than half a century of experiments to see whether people think they hear Bing Crosby crooning White Christmas.

Crosby’s recording of the song, released in 1942, became enduringly popular. In the 1960s, Theodore Xenophon Barber at the Medfield Foundation in Massachusetts and his colleagues began using White Christmas – and also not using it – as an experimental probe. Volunteers were told to listen carefully, then to indicate whether they heard a song playing. There was no song to hear, just ambient noise or, in some experiments, generated white noise. …

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