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Author: Sir FrederickSir Frederick Date: Aug 18, 2008 06:34
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080818/sc_livescience/scientistssaywecanseesound...
Scientists Say We Can See Sound
by Robin Nixon
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.com
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the human
visual system processes sound and helps us see.
Here's the basics of what was Neuroscience 101: The auditory system records
sound, while the visual system focuses, well, on the visuals, and never do they
meet. Instead, a "higher cognitive" producer, like the brain's superior
colliculus, uses these separate inputs to create our cinematic experiences.
The textbook rewrite: The brain can, if it must, directly use sound to see and
light to hear.
The study was published last week in the journal BMC Neuroscience.
Monkey hear, monkey see
Researchers trained monkeys to locate a light flashed on a screen. When the
light was very bright, they easily found it; when it was dim, it took a long
time. But if a dim light made a brief sound, the monkeys found it in no time -
too quickly, in fact, than can be explained by the old theories.
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Author: toolytooly Date: Aug 18, 2008 12:49
"Sir Frederick" fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:49uia4h4r9n4bluq6fq7no98hogpik7mib@4ax.com...> http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080818/sc_livescience/scientistssaywecanseesound...
> Scientists Say We Can See Sound
> by Robin Nixon
> Special to LiveScience
> LiveScience.com
>
> Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the
> human
> visual system processes sound and helps us see.
>
> Here's the basics of what was Neuroscience 101: The auditory system
> records
> sound, while the visual system focuses, well, on the visuals, and never do
> they
> meet. Instead, a "higher cognitive" producer, like the brain's superior
> colliculus, uses these separate inputs to create our cinematic
> experiences.
> ...
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Author: toolytooly Date: Aug 18, 2008 13:56
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> "Sir Frederick" fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
> news:49uia4h4r9n4bluq6fq7no98hogpik7mib@4ax.com...>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080818/sc_livescience/scientistssaywecanseesound...
>> Scientists Say We Can See Sound
>> by Robin Nixon
>> Special to LiveScience
>> LiveScience.com
>>
>> Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the
>> human
>> visual system processes sound and helps us see.
>>
>> Here's the basics of what was Neuroscience 101: The auditory system
>> records
>> sound, while the visual system focuses, well, on the visuals, and never
>> do they
>> meet. Instead, a "higher cognitive" producer, like the brain's superior ...
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Author: Sir FrederickSir Frederick Date: Aug 18, 2008 16:58
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:56:22 -0400, "tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>> Idiot. You play with this stuff like it doesn't matter. Life itself IS
>> an illusion. It is just another story we attach to the 'cinematic
>> projections' we play back from memory. Why would...
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Author: turtoniturtoni Date: Aug 18, 2008 18:45
On Aug 18, 7:58 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:56:22 -0400, "tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>>> Idiot. You play with this stuff like it doesn't matter. Life itself IS
>>> an illusion. It is just another story we attach to the 'cinematic
>>> projections' we play back from memory. Why would you want to unravel
>>> existence to this degree? Do you hate this BEing so much that you would
>>> destroy it for everyone?
>>> The Pain is real. The FEAR is concrete. At the moment of death, you will
>>> understand [we will]...but what use is that...just to KNOW?
>
>>> Much better to build stories, and illusions, and good experiences. Can
>>> you not even dream well? This could be a good world if only we could
>>> BELIEVE.
>
>>> No one can 'believe' in neurons except the Lex Luthers of life [will to
>>> power stuff]. ...
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Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Aug 19, 2008 07:42
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:34:40 -0700, Sir Frederick wrote:
> Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests
... neuroscience was upside down, or is so now, or will be later, or is
in a constant cartwheel state or neuroscience needs a lesson on heads and
feet...?
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Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Aug 19, 2008 08:01
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:34:40 -0700, Sir Frederick wrote:
> Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests
... neuroscience was upside down, or is so now, or will be later, or is
in a constant cartwheel state or neuroscience needs a lesson on heads and
feet...?
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