“…There is also much research showing that music can produce strong (positive or negative) emotional responses (e.g., Arjmand, Hohagen, Paton & Rickard, 2017). The emotional responses to music can be so strong that they may also influence how one experiences the taste of food in a phenomenon known as "sonic seasoning" (e.g., Xu, Guo, Liu, Xu & Huang, 2023). Given the musical nature of the speech to song illusion and the sound to music illusion, we sought in the present study to exploit the emotional response experienced with speech and non-speech sounds, especially music, in an attempt to distinguish the two illusions from each other.…”