Very interesting. A lot of these seem to stem from the brain taking shortcuts/jumping to conclusions. This helps us so much in everyday life that it has become the way we think. It is responsible for us recognizing someone's face when shown normally, but not when it is upside down!
Yes, the brain uses whatever cues it can to make sense of things - so, it's trivially easy to create 'tests' like those above which deliberately manipulate knowledge of our senses so that we "get it wrong". Ordinary record producers play with phase effects, very obviously, so we hear things "in the wrong place".
Which is a good thing. Our brains are our best friends in terms of throwing up an illusion; feed them with good enough quality cues, and the "believability of the mirage" is quite astounding - but get it a tiny bit wrong in key ways, and the fakery is then obvious.
The faces analogy is spot on - upside down, we struggle; right side up, someone with makeup trying to fool us that they are someone we know has to get it almost perfect, or we will reject that deceit - our minds zoom in on subtle 'incorrectnesses', and we recognise the fraud.
