Mishearings
By OLIVER SACKS JUNE 5, 2015
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/oliver-sacks-mishearings.html
One’s surroundings, one’s wishes and expectations, conscious and unconscious, can certainly be co-determinants in mishearing, but the real mischief lies at lower levels, in those parts of the brain involved in phonological analysis and decoding. Doing what they can with distorted or deficient signals from our ears, these parts of the brain manage to construct real words or phrases, even if they are absurd.