Ep12 "Can we create new senses for humans?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
How to Listen to Words
Eagleman wore a vest and trained with it for four days two hours a day. By the fifth day he was pretty good at identifying the words that were being said to him. When we switched to a new set of words once he had never heard before he was able to perform well above chance. This suggested he wasn't just memorizing some answers he was actually learning how to hear with the vest.
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