Should come as no surprise to this guy.
Posted on 11/25/2009 6:46:41 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Surprise! Your Skin Can Hear
Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer
LiveScience.com
Wed Nov 25, 1:06 pm ET
We not only hear with our ears, but also through our skin, according to a new study.
The finding, based on experiments in which participants listened to certain syllables while puffs of air hit their skin, suggests our brains take in and integrate information from various senses to build a picture of our surroundings.
Along with other recent work, the research flips the traditional view of how we perceive the world on its head.
"[That's] very different from the more traditional ideas, based on the fact that we have eyes so we think of ourselves as seeing visible information, and we have ears so we think of ourselves as hearing auditory information. That's a little bit misleading," study researcher Bryan Gick of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, told LiveScience. "A more likely explanation is that we have brains that perceive rather than we have eyes that see and ears that hear."
With such abilities, Gick views humans as "whole-body perceiving machines."
The research, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada and the National Institutes of Health, is detailed in the Nov. 26 issue of the journal Nature.
How we perceive
Gick's work builds on past studies showing, for instance, that we can see sound and hear light, even if we don't consciously realize it. Other studies show if you observe another person's lips moving and think that other is speaking, your brain's auditory regions would light up, Gick said.
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Ping!
I’ve got a lateral line.
Sound is vibration, our skin can feel vibration, let’s make a headline.
I don’t believe the conclusions follow from the results based on this article. I wonder about the experimental design—this could simply indicate that distractions cause errors, or do I not follow what they are saying?
This freek belongs in a rubber room with no door!!!!
I’ve used it determine structural stability in residential houses in the past pre-demolition. You could say I’ve risked my life on this concept repeatedly.
This is junior high school science.
Google ‘Cell Intelligence’
So this is a new study to match the finding of a study done i 1746 at Oxford.
Wonderful.
I remember being in the “Cat” house at the zoo in Madison, WI. There was a tiger roaring in the enclosed space and it almost physically hurt my chest!
Skin can hear, you say? Well, I don’t know about that, but I can assure that it is motile, as the shenanigans in DC make my skin crawl...
Yes, yer right. That's what 'subwoofers' are all about, but otherwise before the popular 'subwoofer' was even a fad, any deep bass would shake the foundation ... I remember going to a nightclub in the 70's and my sister met and was dancing with a guy who was deaf. He explained (somehow to us) that he was 'feeling' the heavy beat thru vibrations.
Makes perfect sense, didn't need no government grant 'study' to figure that one out .....
How do stable/unstable houses sound ?
A vibration will tell. Wood will bounce at rather high frequency relative to balance, masonry will just ‘feel’ hollow.
Every once in awhile get a call from somebody that has terrible vibrations in their house. Of course all of their complaints to the city, etc. are ignored after a brief visit, and they are just deemed “nuts”.
In one case I recorded a strong, low vibration using a sensor in their toilet reservoir. More sleuthing determined that the main trunk from a sewage pumping station went by her house, and that was probably the cause. She ended up moving.
It was pretty weird, and I would not have believed it if I hadn’t measured the vibrations along with her notes of when the vibrations were worst, etc. (Sensors on her wall and floor didn’t record anything, and the one in the water was still VERY low).
Yep.
You feel it.
Put your hand to the ground. I have saved lives and that’s all I’ve got to say.
“It can make you whole body shake.”
Yeah. It’s true, sorta’. Having spent a career in extremely high noise environments (turbine engines), it’s pretty well known that ear protection goes only so far in protecting your hearing. At some point, bone conduction overpowers any ear protection you’re using. High freq. turbine noise can best be described as making me “crawly”. Probably has to do with having all of the air spaces in the body giving your viscera a deep massage. Not terribly sure if it is hard on things besides my hearing, but I would not be surprised if it was.
If you press you earphone hard on bones around the ear cavity, it does enhance effect from music. Bone conduction can be indeed powerful.
This is especially true if the sound is low frequency in my experience.
We have discovered the tactile equivalent of lip reading.
The very next time that my wife complains that I’m not listening, I going to strip.
She better hope that we’re home.
thanks, bfl
So what happens when I get old and my skin becomes hard of hearing? How many batteries will my skin’s hearing aid take?
And just where, exactly, do those batteries go? Pics, diagrams, and charts would be most welcome. Well, almost...
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