Learning to Listen: Neurological Evidence


Neurological evidence indicates we not only learn to listen, but actually tune our inner ear response based on neural feedback from the brain. We literally are able to actively tune our own hearing.  

When we listen for a flute for example, this is more than a conscious decision to focus on the flute. This creates neural impulses that actively tune ear cells to better hear the flute.  

This whole video is fascinating, but I want to get you hooked right away so check this out:  
https://youtu.be/SuSGN8yVrcU?t=1340

“Selectively changing what we’re listening to in response to the content. Literally reaching out to listen for things.


Here’s another good one. Everyone can hear subtle details about five times as good as predicted by modeling. Some of us however can hear 50 times as good. The difference? Years spent learning to listen closely! https://youtu.be/SuSGN8yVrcU?t=1956

Learning to play music really does help improve your listening.  

This video is chock full of neurphysiological evidence that by studying, learning and practice you can develop the listening skills to hear things you literally could not hear before. Our hearing evolved millennia before we invented music. We are only just now beginning to scratch at the potential evolution has bestowed on us.


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According to the latest research the animal with brainwave patterns most closely resembling a human is the hyena. According to science (all genuflect now) light is both a waveform and a particle at the same time. Science is a cult religion and a stupid one at that. And what is all this flap about evolution? Less than 1% have even read the origin of the species, for in the introduction he says that his theory rests entirely upon gradualism which has been in the dust bin for at least 50 years, not to mention what even he calls the problem of the angiosperms. My wish is that you enjoy the music whether played, live or reproduced. 
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Accordion? I left an accordion in the backseat of my car with the windows down and the doors unlocked in a bad part of town. When I got back to my car, there were two accordions in the backseat.

Q: Why are there no accordions on Star Trek?
A: Because it's in the future.
No need to try and change other’s curiosities.


I only mean to warn people of the dangers of excess. It is worth stepping back from your hobby and what you are learning about and asking if being more critical is making you happier or not.

Of course everyone is on a different stage and on a different journey and hair splitting the differences between gear is fun but you should do so consciously instead of by default.

Best,,

Erik