Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Research in Auditory Processing From: Jonathan Berger <brg@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:58:18 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--=_a2e648f52a90eba5988560044193d0d8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Unless you are a 'cellist. When my 4 year old daughter started playing she was flummoxed by the notion that playing lower pitch meant rising on the fingerboard and vice versa. - jonathan --- Jonathan Berger The Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University http://jonathanberger.net [1] On 2019-03-12 04:56, Axel Roebel wrote: > Hello > > On 11/03/19 13:01, Peter Lennox wrote: > >> But I'm not sure that it's as intuitive to equate higher pitch= greater quantity. I mean, I can grasp it visually (I suppose one could try for an evolutionary argument - a higher pile= a greater quantity, or some such). > > I am all for the evolutionary argument! In fact if you see this from a physical perspective (us living in a world) then larger bodies make lower > sounds. So the relation high = large cannot be linked to a predominant world experience (besides for musicians - see Neuhoff 2002 (:-) - but also for > musicians a high note is produced by a smaller instrument, so it depends on the context the person uses to interpret the data). For visual > presentations it seems hard to find situations where you need to look up for something smaller. > > Best > Axel Links: ------ [1] http://jonathanberger.net --=_a2e648f52a90eba5988560044193d0d8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><body style=3D'font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-seri= f'> <p>Unless you are a 'cellist. When my 4 year old daughter started playing s= he was flummoxed by the notion that playing lower pitch meant rising on the= fingerboard and vice versa.</p> <p><span style=3D"font-size: 10pt;">- jonathan </span></p> <div>---<br /> <pre>Jonathan Berger<br />The Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music<= br /><span>Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education</span><br />St= anford University<br /><br /><a title=3D"http://jonathanberger.net" href=3D= "http://jonathanberger.net">http://jonathanberger.net</a></pre> </div> <p>On 2019-03-12 04:56, Axel Roebel wrote:</p> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p= x solid; margin-left:5px"> <pre>Hello On 11/03/19 13:01, Peter Lennox wrote:</pre> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p= x solid; margin-left:5px">But I'm not sure that it's as intuitive to equate= higher pitch=3D greater quantity. I mean, I can grasp it visually (I suppo= se one could try for an evolutionary argument – a higher pile=3D a gr= eater quantity, or some such).</blockquote> <pre>I am all for the evolutionary argument! In fact if you see this from a= physical perspective (us living in a world) then larger bodies make lower sounds. So the relation high =3D large cannot be linked to a predominant wo= rld experience (besides for musicians - see Neuhoff 2002 (:-) - but also fo= r musicians a high note is produced by a smaller instrument, so it depends on= the context the person uses to interpret the data). For visual presentations it seems hard to find situations where you need to look up fo= r something smaller. Best Axel </pre> </blockquote> </body></html> --=_a2e648f52a90eba5988560044193d0d8--