Posted on 06/10/2019 7:51:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
"We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than macaque monkey brains,"
To test this, the researchers played a series of harmonic sounds, or tones, to healthy volunteers and monkeys. Meanwhile, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to monitor brain activity in response to the sounds. The researchers also monitored brain activity in response to sounds of toneless noises that were designed to match the frequency levels of each tone played.
"We found that human and monkey brains had very similar responses to sounds in any given frequency range. It's when we added tonal structure to the sounds that some of these same regions of the human brain became more responsive,"
"This finding suggests that speech and music may have fundamentally changed the way our brain processes pitch,"
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Parts of Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue' and others just feel good!
Hearing impaired since RVN, and it still feels good.
Again, WTH kind of dumbgrunt are you?!?!
From what little I know, Gershwin was a genius.
Never heard of this before but while studying my racing form from TBP, I kept it on in the background.
Beautiful piece!
The things you learn on FR. Sometimes at the same time! :)
Ummmmm...RIB isn't supposed to "make you feel good", though. The dissidence, rapidly played notes that are supposed to sound like "traffic", etc. are to set moods, thoughts, and yes, feeling though.
The guy wrote it while riding a train (the 1920’s), and you can hear some of the sounds of a steam engine!!
WTH kind of dumbgrunt are you?!?!
Just a plain old Grunt, nothing out of the ordinary.
My wife could fill your ear!
They also found that our brains prefer the sound of screeching macaque monkeys than the sound of a Hillary Clinton speech.
Too bad they never actually played anything on that show.
The guy wrote it while riding a train (the 1920’s), and you can hear some of the sounds of a steam engine!!
Knowing that detracts because I tend to think about steam engines. Not simply listening to music...
Dave Brubeck’s Take Five is another.
If they could isolate the stimulating bits, it would be like a narcotic. Assuming that most humans have a similar response?
Too late for George Allen...
Picturing the volunteers and the monkeys sitting next to each other with headphones on.
Steam engines are silent to passengers...it's the sound of the wheels.
I love Brubeck and especially TAKE FIVE, which I first heard when it came out, when I was in high school. I have that original album still.
Now with my hearing shot, it is all just sounds, faint.
My ex and I are tone deaf Our son has natural ear and plays every instrument in a band and sings. Must have been a tenor in the wood pile.
I love that opus, especially the versions recorded by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra in which Gershwin himself plays the piano.
“There is some music that tickles my brain.”
Just wait till you plod through a thread on A=432 vs A=440.
Soft Lights & Sweet Music--Waring's Pennsylvanians (vocal by the Three Girl friends) (1932)
Do you and your wife know your family histories? If so was ANYONE musically inclined/talented, in past generations? More often than not, different talents/predispositions jump a generation or two or more.
sorry it was humor. My ex was not tone deaf. My father neither.
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