Spontaneously I just connect it with the fact that humans from all
times must have been extremely interested in where a sound came from,
regardless if it was something you could eat or something that could eat you..?
Even if the eye is very accurate in reading a number, for example,
the ears are very accurate, too, but in a very different way.
I am certain that most people have saved their lifes or at least
damage, by stopping at the sidewalk in the last second because of a
car being heard coming closer nearby.
Also, which cannot be denied, mono from headphones is something very
"unnatural" to the brain. Such a sound picture never happens in real life.
Mono from loudspeakers is something else, as you hear listening room
in stereo and phase differences.
Klas.
At 00:34 2008-12-31, you wrote:
>At 3:23 PM +0100 12/30/08, Klas Strandberg wrote:
> >
> >My memory is very auditive: If I replay a recording made in stereo,
> >it might be a very old recording, it brings back most of the
> >sensations, even smells. It is like going back in time.
> >
>
>Klas--
>That is a a very interesting observation about stereo imagery
>possibly engaging more neural circuitry and perhaps enhancing memory.
>
>I record and monitor a stereo mic rig with wireless stereo headphones
>almost every night as I sleep. In the morning, I jot down notes about
>sound events that I seem to recall hearing. One of the best ways I
>can test as to whether the event was real or imagined is to try and
>describe its location within the stereo field. I've done this for
>about a year and it seems to me that spatialization is usually part
>and parcel of the "recording" I've made in my head. Later, as I
>spot-play through the recording in search of this recalled moments,
>the sound is always positioned very closely to what I recalled.
>
>Curious to think that our memories of heard experiences could include
>the space they occurred in! =-O Rob D.
>
>
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