PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Stapedius Muscle, Musical Tone, Music Perception
14 Sep 2016
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Looks like sound is going linearly in one direction. However in reality sound forms a ripple effect. Brain produces all the different pitches (multiple components and processes it as one) More likely to hear a tone with different frequencies. Can sound different due to differences in timbre. Leverage: osicalls represent a leverage system, osicalls vibrate so that we can hear the sound, osicalls are very small bones. Stapedius muscles tighten up when we are talking or if there is a loud sound. This is why our own voices are not loud. Violinist will have more hearing loss in the ear near the violin in comparison to the other ear. Exposing oneself to loud volumes of sound the hair cells will be damaged. Musicians devote more cortical space then nonmusicians: does not appear to be genetic rather it has to do with experience and training, musicians may perform better on the spatial cue tasks on an iq test.
