The Hearing Brain
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Cognitive neuroscience bitesize on ‘The Hearing Brain’
A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Hearing Brain”
Short and Sweet
Try the Yanny/Laurel illusion for yourself!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDiXQl7grPQ
Also note the similar “Green needle” versus “Brain storm” debate. What do you hear? Try it on your friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXxV2C1ri2k
Can You Trust Your Ears? (Audio Illusions including the McGurk illusion)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU&t=6s
The cocktail party problem discussed in light of new evidence from the effects of attention on auditory neurons
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQhMFxvaPM
Oliver Sacks on A Brain That Can’t Hear Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jy6GdXHUE0
Daniel Levitin presents a TEDx lecture in which he describes his own view on how the evolution of the human brain made music possible