Beats, the missing fundamental, the precedence effect, stream segregation and Doppler — the tricks the ear plays that let you hear a bassline on a speaker that cannot physically produce one.
The ear does not report what is in the air. It reports a reconstruction — a best guess assembled from partial information, using assumptions built up over a lifetime and a few million years. Most of the time the guess is so good that the distinction never comes up. The interesting cases are where it does, because those are the ones you can use.
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