mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham) (07/04/90)
>I probably should not have included this sentence in my quotation. The point >which Handel seems to find most important is that the auditory signal is broken >down into frequency components in the cochlea and stays broken down in that >form all the way to the cerebral cortex. Thus, the brain has no way of >distinguishing speech stimuli from music stimuli until the cortex kicks >in. What I would find most interesting is the what, how, and why once the cortex *does* kick in. (And why hasn't all of this crossposted to comp.music so it will land in the lap of that "semantics/no-semantics of music"/"music is/isn't a language" discussion, where it might help. Hence, I crosspost.) I contend (in my typical intuitive manner :-)) that the distinction would not be made until assimilated into a different "kind" of knowledge than it was before skidding into the cortex. So let's hear something about what happens to the stimuli at that point. Cheers, --Mark ======================================== Mark Gresham ARTSNET Norcross, GA, USA E-mail: ...gatech!artsnet!mgresham or: artsnet!mgresham@gatech.edu ========================================