I read blogs and listen to music while trying to finish my thesis in physiology.
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There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
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auditory cheesecake?
“I have (this sounds like fantastic nonsense, but it isn’t) frequently caught myself positively solving some problem (of a more or less philosophical nature) in, say, the key of A minor, where I had utterly failed to reason it out in words.”
from a short article on the mystery of music
(via littlepotato)
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For the record, many countries spell certain English words differently. For example, we spell “health care” as “a basic human right”.
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Today, I was feeling really down so I talked to one of my extremely bubbly friends on how she handled bad days. She looked at me with a serious face said, “I think of what babies would look like with mustaches.” then walked away. I couldn’t stop smiling the rest of the day. MLIA
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Auditory cheesecake?
For anyone interested in some music-related science reading this weekend, neuroscientist Robbin Miranda shared with me her study showing that the neurocognitive model for music is the same as for language. Robbin works closely with Michael Ullman, Stephen Pinker’s colleague and the scientist who coined the declarative/procedural model for language.
Robbin’s most recent work involves a case study of a 31-year-old schizophrenic musician. Her group predicted what type of memory deficits the musician would have and revealed them by manipulating music to analyze memory as they did in the previous study.
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