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Edward Reid Sings Nursery Rhymes to Run backing... by UCANLEARNPOKERdotCOM x
What does this tell us about expectations?
What does this tell us about the relationship between auditory perception and music?
Greg Bryant - http://gabryant.bol.ucla.edu/
McGurk effect - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypd5txtGdGw
Scientific American Pod Cast - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=auditory-illusions-10-04-25
Quickening beat & Sound for under 20 - http://listverse.com/2008/02/29/top-10-incredible-sound-illusions/
"On Thursday IBM demonstrated Watson, a computer consisting of a roomful of the company's Power7 processors. But the real genius in the system is that it can understand language well enough to figure out the wordplay that makes up a Jeopardy! question. On Feb. 14, 15 and 16 Watson will take on two Jeopardy! champions -- - Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings."
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/100879/20110113/ibm-s-watson-computer-to-play-jeopardy.htm#
(Contributed by Anthony)
Here is a spoof on Watson: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/14/jeopardy-robot-watson_n_823115.html
What do we know about the physics of sounds that make this work? What do we know about the mechanics of the auditory system that make this work? Why do these noises combine to make music? What are the contributions of the cognitive system?
This site allows users to create and listen to themed music. How does this relate to gestalt theory principles?
Cancer surgery has left Roger Ebert without the ability to speak or eat food. This video talks about how Rogers has dreams of talking and eating. Towards the end, the video discusses how researchers are reconstructing a computerized voice for Roger based on archived recordings of his actual voice.
What does this tell us about how our perceptual system binds sounds, movement, and objects together to create this unusual experience?
Neurosonics Live from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.
"Designed to be used on blind dates to determine their age, the Age Prediction Machine plays a buzzing mosquito sound, which will tell the user whether they're actually a teenager, in their early 20s, 30s or--heaven forbid!--over 40, depending on how well they can hear it. If they start slapping imaginary mosquitoes away on the 40-year old setting (which should be the loudest), then you know you've been set up with a goose of a blind date."
What do we know from S&P about aging and the ability to detect certain frequencies?
"The Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) is a unit within the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. BRP develops digital recording equipment, computer software, and algorithms that are used by scientists around the world to study animal communication and to monitor the health of wildlife populations. BRP is also pioneering new techniques for censusing and tracking wildlife with arrays of microphones placed in natural environments around the globe."
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/
What are they up to in this lab? What is the science of sound? Why is it important to study sounds? How does this relate to SP?
Also see - http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/
"This seems like a harmless tube. In fact, it was harmless: Israeli farmers used the first version to scare birds from crop fields. Then, somebody converted it into a crowd dispersion mechanism. And then, they discovered it could kill."
http://gizmodo.com/5451357/sound-generator-could-kill-humans-at-ten-meters
What are the physics of sound? There is a clip somewhere from myth busters where they tried to find the "brown note" how does that relate to this clip? The reader comments are pretty funny.
Brown note wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
Jimmy Fallon broke out his spot-on Neil Young impression last night for a heart wrenching rendition of "Pants On The Ground." The tune, penned by 62-year-old "American Idol" contestant General Larry Platt, has been making the rounds this week due to ridiculous lyrics like "Pants on the ground / Lookin' like a fool with your pants on the ground!" But coming out of Neil Young's emotional voice, those words never sounded more poignant.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/15/pants-on-the-ground-neil_n_424468.html
This was just fun to watch. How is it that two people can sing the same song and have it come out so different? Does Fallon do a good impression of Young? How is our brain fooled by good impressions?
"It's a phantom auditory sensation like phantom limb pain when an arm is cut off, and you feel pain in that missing limb," said Richard Salvi, a leading tinnitus expert and director of the Center For Hearing and Wellness at the University at Buffalo in New York. "Much the same seems to happen when you have tinnitus."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/28/tinnitus.metallica.drummer/index.html
Abstract
Evidence for the absolute nature of long-term auditory memory is provided by analyzing the production of familiar melodies. Additionally, a two-component theory of absolute pitch is presented, in which this rare ability is conceived as consisting of a more common ability, pitch memory, and a separate, less common ability, pitch labeling. Forty-six subjects sang two different popular songs, and their productions were compared with the actual pitches used in recordings of those songs. Forty percent of the subjects sang the correct pitch on at least one trial; 12% of the subjects hit the correct pitch on both trials, and 44% came within two semitones of the correct pitch on both trials. The results show a convergence with previous studies on the stability of auditory imagery and latent absolute pitch ability; the results further suggest that individuals might possess representations of pitch that are more stable and accurate than previously recognized.
What types of sounds can be found on the Web using FindSounds? Below is a partial list. Click on any link below to perform a search, or enter one or more words in the search box above and then click on the Search button.
http://www.findsounds.com/types.html
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