PSY 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tuning Fork, Sound, Sound Energy
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Oral language of every known culture follows similar basic structural rules, and people in all cultures make and enjoy music. Language and music allow us to communicate and to interact socially. Language - can categorize information with words; evolutionarily it helped us with hunting/gathering behaviours. Music - helps us regulate our emotions and can affect the emotions of others; can help with group identification national anthems. We tend to link language and music together because they are both based on sound . This isn"t always the case with language though sign language. We will be talking as though language = speech. One of our brain"s primary functions is to create our sensory reality. Sight and sound don"t exist without a brain. While the sensory realities of humans are probably all similar, there are certainly differences. Someone who is hard of hearing vs. someone who is not. When you hit a tuning fork, the vibrations displace adjacent air molecules.
