The latest in cognition research:
Accordion to several studies, replacing words with the names of musical instruments in a sentence often goes undetected.
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
Philosopher
The latest in cognition research:
Accordion to several studies, replacing words with the names of musical instruments in a sentence often goes undetected.
Great. I missed ‘it’ the first time I read the phrase.
Very late in his life, Oliver Sacks discovered a similar kind of slippage in his mind’s acceptance of a replacement, a kind of near miss, for words or phrases spoken to him.
He kept track of them by writing them down and in the face of his own frailty came to some both valiant and humble conclusions:
–“Every mishearing is a novel concoction. The hundredth mishearing is a fresh and as surprising as the first.”
–“Mishearings are not hallucinations, but like hallucinations they utilize the usual pathways of perception and pose as reality–it does not occur to one to question them.”
The River of Consciousness, 2017