Interesting Trev Whatever they are learning has to pieces of what we are being forced to endure. But it behooves us to keep in mind that just because it is below or above our normal hearing range does not rule out scenarios that our brains still might have the capacity to make sense of it, including layers in noise And lets remember that EM pollution is coming at us at millions and trillions of cycles per second of a frequency rate
Found these articles at that site. Perhaps by knowing what they have been studying about auditory and visual imput will help us get a better handle on what we ourselves are experiencing and perhaps help us connect some of our pieces of the puzzle. But let's not forget that they only tell us as much as they want us to know, and sometimes we have to read between the lines because usually they know a whole lot more than they are letting on as they so often try to continually infer what they know is very limited as they continue to advance their mapping techniques concerning our sensory pathways http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/08/06/caltech.neurobiologists.discover.individuals.who.hear.movement Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have discovered a type of synesthesia in which individuals hear sounds, such as tapping, beeping, or whirring, when they see things move or flash. "As part of the experiment, a moving display was running on my computer screen with dots rapidly expanding out, somewhat like the opening scene of Star Wars. Out of the blue, one of the students asked, "Does anyone else hear something when you look at that?" http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/10/18/scientists.closer.grasping.how.brains.hearing.center.spurs.responses.sound Cochlear receptors near the outer edge recognize low-frequency sounds whereas those whereas those near the inside of the cochlea are tuned to higher frequencies. Just as we visually map a room by spatially identifying the objects in it, we map our aural world based on the frequencies of sounds. The neurons within the brain's "hearing center"—the auditory cortex—are organized into modules that each respond to sounds within a specific frequency band. Analogously, in the auditory cortex, neurons within a column are expected to be tuned to the same frequency. So the scientists were especially surprised to find that for a given neuron in this region, the dominant input signal didn't come from within its column but from outside it. "It comes from neurons that we think are tuned to higher frequencies," elaborates Zador. "This is the first example of the neuronal organizing principle not following the columnar pattern, but rather an out-of-column pattern." http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/02/01/seeing.brain.hear.reveals.surprises.about.how.sound.processed By using different dyes, this study measured differences in how the neurons receive sound information (the inputs), and how they process that sound (the outputs). It was previously assumed that neighboring neurons receiving the same inputs would also produce the same outputs, but Kanold's research found something very different. "Neighboring neurons do their own thing by creating different outputs," Kanold explains. In contrast, Kanold and colleagues were able to look at the activity of all the neurons in a large region of the auditory cortex simultaneously. To get the highest resolution picture to date of how auditory cortex neurons are organized, the researchers used a technique to fill neurons in living mice with a dye that glows brightly when calcium levels rise, a key signal that neurons are firing. They then selectively illuminated specific regions of the cortex with a laser and measured the neuronal activity of hundreds of neurons in response to stimulation by simple tones of different frequencies. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/02/10/researchers.find.how.brain.hears.sound.silence "It looks like there is a whole separate channel that goes all the way from the ear up to the brain that is specialized to process sound offsets," Wehr said. The two channels finally come together in a brain region called the auditory cortex, situated in the temporal lobe. To do the research, Wehr and two UO undergraduate students -- lead author Ben Scholl, now a graduate student at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, and Xiang Gao -- monitored the activity of neurons and their connecting synapses as rats were exposed to millisecond bursts of tones, looking at the responses to both the start and end of a sound. They tested varying lengths and frequencies of sounds in a series of experiments. It became clear, the researchers found, that one set of synapses responded "very strongly at the onset of sounds," but a different set of synapses responded to the sudden disappearance of sounds. There was no overlap of the two responding sets, the researchers noted. The end of one sound did not affect the response to a new sound, thus reinforcing the idea of separate processing channels. The UO team also noted that responses to the end of a sound involved different frequency tuning, duration and amplitude than those involved in processing the start of a sound, findings that agree with a trend cited in at least three other studies in the last decade. On Jun 30, 2:56 am, Trev <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not saying, in the least way, that Hum is illusory. I've been here > too long, for that view :) > Far from it- but these two artcles show ways the brain can construct > between sound gaps with a memory mechanism built into inner ear > structure > hairshttp://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/04/05/it.s.not.over.when.its.ov... > - and also how Theta brain waves are involved in our preception of > sounds around > us.http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/11/25/auditory.illusion.how.our... > This combination of persistence and spatial awareness figure strongly > in hum, so by extrapolation- one has to ask 'What is the link, if > any'? > I hope these points are of interest and stimulate some debate- > particularly on how vulnerable these tendencies leave us to noise & EM > pollution. > [Other interesting links on the site] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hum Sufferers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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