30 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
The Brain Making Sense of an Orchestra
But our unconscious feats of unweaving and weaving are greater even
than this. Think what is happening when you listen to a whole orchestra.
Imagine that, superimposed on a hundred instruments, your neighbour
in the concert is whispering learned music criticism in your ear, others
are coughing and, lamentably, somebody behind you is rustling a
chocolate wrapper. All these sounds, simultaneously, are vibrating your
eardrum and they are summed into a single, very complicated wriggling
wave of p...30 JAN 2015 by ideonexus