Re: virus: Hail Virus!

sodom (Sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 11:08:07 -0400


I posted the exact same article, i got the impression that Asians raised in the
States, processed sounds like we do, so this was a cultural issue.

Sodom

Tim Rhodes wrote:

> >In a message dated 98-06-12 10:58:26 EDT, you write:
> >
> >>>> Therefore, cognitive abilities like spatial and verbal ones (without
> any
> > > doubt also racial-determined) should imply nation-specific religion
> (which
> > > I'll call 'Level 1 religion'). <
>
> I remember seeing a report in which sounds such as babbling brooks, crashing
> waves, or birdsongs were found, using realtime MIR, to be registered in a
> different part of the brain for those natives of Asia than those from the
> West. Those from the West "heard" these sounds using a part of the brain
> which deals with noise, where Asian brains employed a region used for music
> and language. I don't remember, however, if writers suggested that the
> difference fell along racial or cultural lines.
>
> Has anyone else come across similar findings?
>
> -Prof. Tim