Music and the brain
"Kalman Rubinson" wrote in message
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On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:44:30 -0500, "Harry Lavo"
wrote:
For one thing...it seems to challenge the idea often promulgated here that
there is poor long term auditory memory. Could such science have been
based on something other than music? My guess is it was.
I do not see that this is the case, at least as revealed by the
article which is a popular one and not a scientific one. One needs to
distinguish between a precise memory independant of new stimuli and
one that is attached to a stimulus by perceptual mechanisms. The
latter is an imprecise matching that we use for quick identification
but it is not subtle. In other words, long-term auditory memory is a
gross term covering lots of different tasks.
I have ordered the book and hope to get to it and the underlying
papers soon. Drawing conclusions from the popular literature is
always dangerous.
Kal
That's why I prefaced my remarks as "it seems...".
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