Hearing Science of the Senses /

Our ears may have evolved for purposes of survival, but they also afford us the gift of music. How is it that a melody can "give wings to the mind," as Plato said, and so profoundly affect the human heart? In this program, finding the answer to that question will take viewers on a journey...

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Other Authors: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c2008.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col.
Series: Science of the Senses.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Music Activates Every Region of the Brain (1:32)
  • Hearing and Evolution (2:29)
  • Sounds and Music (2:51)
  • World of Silence and Sound (3:30)
  • Music Shapes the Way We See and Feel (2:45)
  • Amusia (2:21)
  • Dolores' Affliction (3:37)
  • Auditory Illusions (4:36)
  • Groupings of Frequencies (2:57)
  • Cerebral Prestidigitation (1:50)
  • Speech Wave Forms (2:56)
  • Brain Plasticity (4:32)
  • Dealing With Sound (3:26)
  • Feeling Sound (3:02)
  • Full Hearing Experience (1:54)
  • Credits: Hearing: Science of the Senses (0:30)