Discussions on this forum often end in one group claiming that they hear stuff like "air", "seperation measured in inches" etc. and another group that claims it's imagined....
The NewScientist published a good story about this, titled "The illusion of music" and you can read it here: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/brain/mg19726441.500-music-special-the-illusion-of-music.html A section is about the top-5 musical illusions so you can actually listen to the examples given! Another section is about amusia which I found very amusing to read. Test yourself (on-line listening test) with the University of Newcastle here: http://www.delosis.com/listening/home.html Anyway, the conclusion in the research done is that music that we think we hear is in fact an illusion! Our brain dissects it into a very complex mix of tiny pieces like timbre, harmony etc. after which it is totally unrecognizable as "a song". Next step is linking the data with our memory like do we recognize any of these tiny pieces... if so, expectations are combined; next we use other senses like how people listening around us react to the music and that's also included into the end-result we percieve as just hearing music. Amusia actually proves that we don't hear the sound that enters our ears but a brain-processed result of which that sound-input is only a part. Also, the article proves that Pink Floyd rulez ;-) Good luck with the test... Nick. -- DeVerm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DeVerm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18104 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52501 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
