Subject: Re: Implicit human echolocation From: Barry Blesser <bblesser@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:13:42 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C7A43D.E986E2C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Any discussion about how we experience sounds immediately reveals the lack of a consistent vocabulary. Each author uses words as they see fit. One has such words as detection, awareness, decoding, perception, meaningfulness, significance, cognition, and so on. Similarly, one has theory, model, heuristic, concept, and so on. When I was doing a review of the literature, I was constantly struck by the difficulty of language. To really understand the problem of language, I very strongly recommend Guy Deutscher's book, The Unfolding of Language. An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention. Now back to the discussion of echolocation. I distinguish between hearing (perception) something and giving it a (interpretation) meaning. Most everyone can hear a spectral difference of a modest boost in low frequency background noise, but few can translate what that perception into a sense of distance to a wall. Barry ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C7A43D.E986E2C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1593" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN class=3D265545713-01062007>Any = discussion about=20 how we experience sounds immediately reveals the lack of a consistent=20 vocabulary. Each author uses words as they see fit. One has such words = as=20 detection, awareness, decoding, perception, meaningfulness, = significance,=20 cognition, and so on. Similarly, one has theory, model, heuristic, = concept, and=20 so on. When I was doing a review of the literature, I was constantly = struck by=20 the difficulty of language. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 class=3D265545713-01062007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN class=3D265545713-01062007>To = really understand=20 the problem of language, I very strongly recommend Guy Deutscher's book, = The=20 Unfolding of Language. An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest=20 Invention.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 class=3D265545713-01062007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN class=3D265545713-01062007>Now = back to the=20 discussion of echolocation. I distinguish between hearing (perception) = something=20 and giving it a (interpretation) meaning. Most everyone can hear a = spectral=20 difference of a modest boost in low frequency background noise, but few = can=20 translate what that perception into a sense of distance to a wall.=20 </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 class=3D265545713-01062007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 class=3D265545713-01062007>Barry</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C7A43D.E986E2C0--