Re: [microsound] Scientists Say We Can See Sound

[aleks vasic <bvasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think every version of this article had "seeing sound" somewhere in  
the title.  BBC, CNN, on and on.  It is in there best interest to  
entice potential readers with a some what misleading title blurb.   
Sucks to read an article when you realize its not exactly what you  
had first assumed.

aLEKs


On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:27 PM, craquemat wrote:

> yeah when i saw that link i thought the same thing.... you could  
> flash a bright light when the two circles meet and still think they  
> bounce. i hardly think this is a "seeing sound" phenomenon as much  
> as it's a "multi-associative sensory experience" thing.
>
> Gary R. Weisberg wrote:
> > A curious connection between this post and the other two  
> > simultaneous ones about the death of the monoculture and Curtis's  
> > BBC program about Freud's influence on PR and advertising.
> > It seems strange at first that the article referred to below would  
> > frame itself by using the phrase 'Seeing Sound', since the  
> > research clearly shows a synergistic relationship between sight  
> > and sound and not a study of synesthesia, which would be more  
> > relevant to the phrase. The title of the article could just as  
> > easily (and more to the point) have been 'Study shows how sound  
> > enhances visual cues' or 'Scientists show how sound increases our  
> > visual acuity'. However, saying that scientists say we can 'see  
> > sound' is much more catchy, and appeals to our more sensational  
> > bent - Ooh! We can see sound! I knew it!
> > This is a fairly innocuous use of the concepts both of appealing  
> > to the monoculture and of engineering a PR manipulation of reality  
> > to 'sell' something. In this case it has nothing to do with the  
> > marketplace, but the concepts that lead to presenting this  
> > information in this way, most likely to attract more readers, is  
> > one that Bernays would have been proud of :-)
> > Kim Cascone wrote:

> > > > Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research  
> > > > suggests the human visual system processes sound and helps us see.
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/6rs9c4
> > >
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