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SavageFugu t1_j03x9rb wrote

Reply to comment by _Atheius_ in New research shows why we hear “lemon” and not “melon” in processing incoming sounds: our brains “time-stamp” the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear by giuliomagnifico

I'm probably being stupid, but I have to agree with you on not quite getting it.

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New_Walls t1_j03yweb wrote

It might seem obvious but knowing how things work on a smaller scale helps us fix things when they don’t work on a larger scale.

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jawshoeaw t1_j0517t4 wrote

Yeah I must be missing something. Maybe what they’re saying is the audio is first encoded, then sent to the brain, then analyzed and decoded but because the way the brain “saves” the audio , it needs to keep track of which sound was first. On a CD the data is stored in space, in a line. In digital storage there is a file. In your brain I’m guessing it’s not so linear

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SavageFugu t1_j056um7 wrote

It's apparently beyond my fields of knowledge. I'm sure it makes perfect to someone, I'm just not that guy.

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jawshoeaw t1_j057p2d wrote

Well think of it this way: unless our brains are recording the audio exactly the same way a computer does , there has to be a way to time-stamp the information. Otherwise it would be just a jumble of incoherent sounds. Take what I’m writing for example: you are reading from left to right. So all is good. Now imagine if every word I typed was written on a separate scrap of paper and put into a bag. You put your hand in the bag and pull out words randomly. Total nonsense. But if I put a number on each one you could reconstruct the meaning.

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LuckFree5633 t1_j06q6yx wrote

You’ve just described my severe adhd brain on and off Adderall. I’ve always described it to people as imagine all my thoughts are spinning all jumbled up in a ball and I have to pick them out as they fly by and hope they make sense. When I take Adderall it’s as if all my thoughts are in a line and I can think and see them all so clearly.

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Nappyheaded t1_j060ov0 wrote

Time tends to move forward and the sounds are made over time... I thought we knew this

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WelldoneMrSteak t1_j05mwsi wrote

I think another way to think of it is a lemon is yellow, and they're looking into why it's yellow. Even if phenomena is obvious, proving it is still hard to do and understanding it can allow for different applications

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