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Auditory illusion

An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the sound equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds.

Examples of auditory illusions:

the Shepard tone
hearing a missing fundamental[?] frequency, given other parts of the harmonic series
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