michelle muerel, an assistant professor of auditory and cognitive neuroscience at maastricht university one thing or the other. it probably also is how sensitive your peers are to various frequencies because the yanny information seems to be in the hype frequency part of the sound and the laurel seems to be in the low—frequency part of the sound and also up right beside you are paying attention to. there are various cognitive factors coming into play including what type of voices you are used to hearing and what type of accents. also what you have recently heard, what you are paying attention to and all of that can contribute to what you hear. i have been hearing yanny all day and then in the last hour i've heard laurel and now back to yanny again. the fallout from the killing of 58 palestinians in gaza on monday continues. it's lead to a number of angry diplomatic exchanges. one of the biggest so far, overnight turkish president recep tayyip erdogan tweeted a reminder to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that "palestinians are not terrorists," calling netanyahu the pm "of an ap