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Hearing is a process that extends from your ear all the way through your brain. The hard line you think exists between “hear” and “familiarity” or “ear training
by nwienert 5y ago
Hearing is a process that extends from your ear all the way through your brain. The hard line you think exists between “hear” and “familiarity” or “ear training” doesn’t exist. The last few years I’ve been spending around Vietnamese, and while I still speak relatively little of it, I’ve been able to slowly adjust to be able to separate out sounds and words that previously sounded like one big mess.
- alar44 5y agoAnd that's something completely different. Language and music use similar parts of the brain, but you're just mashing audio perception together in a way that just isn't related and is not what the article is talking about.
- nwienert 5y agoYou’re being overly strict in defining a general word, in a way that worsens understanding. We aren’t computers with parts. There isn’t a microphone connected to a DSP, there’s a neural net on every level from signal processing up to whole experience. When someone says “hear” they mean almost all of that pipeline, not just the mic quality. Picking out a bassoon in the mix is hearing better, at the level that matters.