Our brains is a code breaker

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Every time I watch an episode of Brain Games on Nat Geo. I am reminded over an over how powerful our brains are and also how easily they can be fooled.
 

jkeny

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Every time I watch an episode of Brain Games on Nat Geo. I am reminded over an over how powerful our brains are and also how easily they can be fooled.
There is another way to interpret the info in that link - not that our brains are easily fooled but rather they are great pattern matching processors.
In audio this may have relevance in that people often say our short term audio memory is only a handful f seconds long & therefore instant A/B switching is necessary to identify audible differences between sounds. Others say that long term listening is more important for evaluating differences between devices.

I suspect that these two approaches are examining different aspects of sound - one aspect being instant amplitude/frequency/timing differences & the other being pattern matching to our stored memory of the sound pattern that we have gathered over time (in other words how natural we feel the reproduced sound is compared to our pattern)
 

MylesBAstor

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There is another way to interpret the info in that link - not that our brains are easily fooled but rather they are great pattern matching processors.
In audio this may have relevance in that people often say our short term audio memory is only a handful f seconds long & therefore instant A/B switching is necessary to identify audible differences between sounds. Others say that long term listening is more important for evaluating differences between devices.

I suspect that these two approaches are examining different aspects of sound - one aspect being instant amplitude/frequency/timing differences & the other being pattern matching to our stored memory of the sound pattern that we have gathered over time (in other words how natural we feel the reproduced sound is compared to our pattern)

There are lots of biological processes going on in our brain when we process stimuli. :) (especially important when we now take into account brain neuroplasticity, eg. overthrowing the decades old dogma that only certain centers in the brain are responsible for certain actions.) It's not only the time constant but the storage capacity and how does short term memory get converted into long term memory. And then there's subconscious processing going on also. That many want to ignore.

And not only patterns but rhythms. A good friend was involved in Parkinson's research and how sound/particular beat patterns could aid them in once again walking normally.
 

Alrainbow

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For me the article is giving me better understanding
Why when I read quickly or post fast even though
I proof.and I miss things anyway.

As with stimuli I agree there is plenty going on
Echos are annoying and confusing to me.
As my mind never gets a good lock on what I hear A little reverb is fine
Al
 

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