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**joe-salton** · 08-21-2008, 12:43 PM

dear friends,

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/h...ow/3382084.cms

be well, be love.

david

'humans can see sound, hear light'
20 aug 2008, 0000 hrs ist,agencies

conventional neuroscience has it that the auditory system's function is to record sound, while the visual system focuses, on the visuals, and never does the twain meet. instead, a "higher cognitive" producer, like the brain's superior colliculus, uses these separate inputs to create our cinematic experiences.

the textbook rewrite: the brain can, if it must, directly use sound to see and light to hear. the study was published last week in the journal bmc neuroscience.

researchers trained monkeys to locate a light flashed on a screen. when the light was very bright, they easily found it; when it was dim, it took a long time. but if a dim light made a brief sound, the monkeys found it in no time - too quickly, in fact, than can be explained by the old theories.

08-21-2008, 12:43 PM	#1
joe-salton Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 464 Senior Member	'Humans can see sound, hear light' dear friends, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/h...ow/3382084.cms be well, be love. david 'humans can see sound, hear light' 20 aug 2008, 0000 hrs ist,agencies conventional neuroscience has it that the auditory system's function is to record sound, while the visual system focuses, on the visuals, and never does the twain meet. instead, a "higher cognitive" producer, like the brain's superior colliculus, uses these separate inputs to create our cinematic experiences. the textbook rewrite: the brain can, if it must, directly use sound to see and light to hear. the study was published last week in the journal bmc neuroscience. researchers trained monkeys to locate a light flashed on a screen. when the light was very bright, they easily found it; when it was dim, it took a long time. but if a dim light made a brief sound, the monkeys found it in no time - too quickly, in fact, than can be explained by the old theories.
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