Auditory pareidolia is a situation created when the brain incorrectly interprets random patterns as being familiar patterns.[39] In the case of EVP it could result in an observer interpreting random noise on an audio recording as being the familiar sound of a human voice.[2][40][41] The propensity for an apparent voice heard in white noise recordings to be in a language understood well by those researching it, rather than in an unfamiliar language, has been cited as evidence of this,[38] and a broad class of phenomena referred to by author Joe Banks as Rorschach Audio has been described as a global explanation for all manifestations of EVP.[42][43][44][45]