Recently, I attended the JCIS 2002 conference in Raleigh, NC and had a conversation with Barry Kesner on 9 March 2002. My comments, on Marek Roland-Mieszkowski's solution for the pathology of stuttering by using a hearing aid system that raised by one octave the sounds the persons heard was 90% effective in stopping stuttering with no training, lead to an interesting suggestion.
Barry Kesner suggest that using the same hearing aid technology that one would be able to learn a foreign language quicker. The only connection I know of that helps foreign language learning is consuming alcohol which is a procedure I can not recommend. Procedurally both would be accomplishing the same thing a phase shifting of a normal processing area into a new processing area. If my memory is correct different languages are stored in different areas of the brain as if a person was two different people. Correlational Opponent Processing model suggest that learning consist of forming weighted wavelet interference areas and different areas would be preferred for different information. If the above conjectures are more effective then we should bring back the old learning labs and economically raising the spoken foreign language by one octave. Later on the learner could be slowly weaned from the learning crutch. References: Blue, Ronald C. & Blue, Wanda E. (November, 1998). Correlational Opponent Processing: A Unifying Principle. The Noetic Journal Roland-Mieszkowski, Marek (1994, August 8-12). DSA (Digital Speech Aid) - A New Device to Decrease or Eliminate Stuttering. 1-st World Congress on Fluency Disorders. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
