Twenty Thousand Hertz Relearning Boléro: How our brains rewrite the sounds we hear
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Jun 8, 2022 AI Snips
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Diana Deutsch's Turning Point
- Diana Deutsch's piano page-turning mishap at age 16 changed her career path from performer to researcher.
- This personal failure led her to discover how people perceive sounds differently, founding her auditory illusion research.
Brain Edits Auditory Input
- Our brains don't just process sound waves as they arrive; they edit and reinterpret them for clarity and order.
- This editing causes auditory illusions like hearing different pitches isolated to separate ears, despite sound input being the same.
Top-Down Processing in Hearing
- Top-down processing means the brain shapes what we hear based on expectations and past experience.
- Hearing is not just sensory input but a prediction of what that input should sound like.