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Category Archive for 'Hearing'

Can’t get this tune out of your head

Posted in Brain, Hearing, Limbic on Nov 10th, 2007

Music and the Brain
Here are an amazing number of stories that deal with the notion of music and language. Diana Deutch from UCSD discusses her studies how infants that are raised in different language context will have differing abilities to acquire perfect pitch. She demonstrates that children that have a tonal language (such [...]

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I’m innocent, my hand did it….

Posted in Brain, Cortex, Hearing, Perception on Oct 18th, 2007

As we continue to dive deeper into the functional mapping of the cortical regions of the brain, we will see that even though we make firm distinctions as to what parts connect to what– there is always a kink in the plan…
This is a series of clips of the famed neurologist V.S. Ramachandran that cover [...]

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Echolocating humans

Posted in Hearing, Vision on Aug 1st, 2007

This is not another edition of Weekly World News, but a rather wonderful story of a boy, blinded by cancer, that developed the ability to echolocate! Using a series of clicking sounds he is able to identify objects that are nearby, even making a distinction between a fire hydrant and a rubbish bin.

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