Cool article on the psychology of setting goals. The problem, he suggested, is that pretty much everybody suffers from a split personality. One self desperately wants to lose weight or quit smoking or run two miles a day or get up early to work. The … [Read more...]
Deafness Is Poorly Understood
Hearing is basically a specialized form of touch. Sound is simply vibrating air which the ear picks up and converts to electrical signals, which are then interpreted by the brain. Read more from Evelyn Glennie. Evelyn managed to distinguish the … [Read more...]
Research On Absolute Pitch
...these results indicate that, in principle, AP can be learned - or one should rather say, developed or activated. In 2000, Ernst Terhardt published research on absolute pitch that proves absolute pitch can be learned. ...the ability to recognize … [Read more...]