Klarinet Archive - Posting 000944.txt from 2004/03

From: Mark Charette <charette@------.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pitch perception
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:45:41 -0500

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Joseph Wakeling wrote:

> Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
> << This could well be true. I have often wondered if the color I see as
> "red" and what someone else sees as "red" are in fact the same visual image.
> The other person may, in fact, see my BLUE, but since he has learned to
> identify it as "red" we still both know to stop at the traffic light. >>
>
> Whether your conscious perception of them is
> different from mine is just a philosophical point. ;-)

Less philisophical than imagined, I think. Diana Deutsch has done a number
of experiments showing regional differences in perception of pitch.

Mark C.

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