Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:22:05 +0100 From: Bob Carlyon <bob.carlyon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Talking piano: Sparky debate on the auditory listYou can't fool me with all your clever talk. There's a little /man/ inside that piano, I tell you.Dr. Bob Carlyon MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit 15 Chaucer Rd Cambridge CB2 7EF England Tel: +44 1223 355294 Fax: +44 1223 359062 www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/hearing
I know you write honestly because you have looked inside peoples' brains and have seen that at the end of the auditory nerve there is another little person who is sitting on a stool, (shaped a bit like a toad), listening to the sounds that come up the nerve. And that's how we really hear.
The truth must out! Best Kevin