You are meeting some friends at a pub. You haven't been to this particular pub before but know they are sitting near a stage where some musicians are playing. When you arrive, you hear a band playing a cover of a song you recognize and walk towards the music, finding your friends almost immediately. Given that the band playing the song you recognized were not playing it exactly the same way as you were used to, and had never heard their version before, what helps explain how you were able to recognize it?

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Perceptual constancies allow us to recognize familiar stimuli under varying conditions, which explains how you could identify the song despite differences in the band's rendition.

You Are Meeting Some Friends at a Pub