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Re: Dogs (music perception, receptive aphasia)
The music professor's dog sounds quite like "Clever Hans" the counting
horse.
http://skepdic.com/cleverhans.html
-JN
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John G. Neuhoff
Department of Psychology
The College of Wooster
Wooster, OH 44691
Phone: 330-263-2475
http://jneuhoff.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "chen-gia tsai" <tsai.cc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Dogs (music perception, receptive aphasia)
Dear list,
A dog of a music professor shows an interesting music taste. The professor
teaches piano, composing and conducting in university. He told me:
1. This dog can recognize melodies, such as Niccolò Paganini's Violin
Concerto.
2. This dog can distinguish between good and bad piano playing. The piano
students can understand its judgments and are afraid of its sigh, which
means 'bad performance'.
3. When this dog hears the motive of Beethoven's fifth symphony (1st
movement), it will hide himself and become depressed for several days - with
a loss of appetite.
4. This dog loves Chopin's Nocturnes.
As some neurologists have drawn analogues between dogs and people with
receptive aphasia, it is not very surprising that some dogs are sensitive to
music and the emotions conveyed by its 'intonation'. I guess that the
ability of music appreciation is related to the right temporal lobe, insula,
and prefrontal cortex - of humans or dogs.
Tsai, Chen-Gia
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Post-doc. fellow
Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
tsai_chen_gia@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Allen" <susie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Dogs
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:07:23 -0800
Our two dogs have indicated to a pet psychic that they prefer Country
Western music (my husband's favorite) to mine (contemporary classical).
Susan Allen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harriet B Jacobster" <Hjacobster@xxxxxxx>
To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Dogs
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:36:49 EST
Okay, I'll stick my two cents in as well.
My first dog absolutely loved listening to my piano playing. It was one
of
the few things that calmed him down. He would sleep under the piano and
the
second I stopped, he woke up, gave me a "huh...what happened" look, and
as
soon as I started again, he fell back to sleep.
My second dog couldn't care less about music.
My third dog loves soft rock and blues, but the second any C & W comes
on,
he begins to howl as if it is absolutely painful to listen to.
Go figure.
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Harriet B. Jacobster, Au.D., CCC-A, FAAA
Board Certified in Audiology
Clinical Supervisor
Mercy College
Dobbs Ferry, New York
(914) 674-7742
hjacobster@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ferguson, Sarah Hargus" <safergus@xxxxxx>
To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Reality check
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:37:00 -0600
Okay, I'll bite (or scratch?) -
My French horn teacher in high school had several large dogs. One of
them, a St. Bernard, liked to sit with his head under her chair as she
played. He would lie there blissfully as she played scales or etudes -
but as soon as she started working on arpeggios he would start to whine.
If she didn't stop, he'd heave a big sigh, haul himself out from under
the chair, lope to the studio door, and start scratching to get out.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Sarah Hargus Ferguson, Ph.D., CCC-A
Assistant Professor
Department of Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences and Disorders
University of Kansas
Dole Center
1000 Sunnyside Ave., Room 3001
Lawrence, KS 66045
office: (785)864-1116
Speech Acoustics and Perception Lab: (785)864-0610
http://www.lsi.ku.edu/ipcd/FAC/Bios/FergusonBio.html
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