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acoustic "colors"

William Calvin WCalvin at U.Washington.edu
Wed Mar 15 19:40:19 EST 1995


kisley at blue.seas.upenn.edu (Michael A Kisley) wrote:

>I am posting this message in hopes of receiving suggestions/references
>regarding the general topic of auditory "color".  However, I would also

>2)  Does anyone know of any good, and recent, papers on the topic of
>    general auditory "colors" or "Gestalt" (including the areas of
>    speech recognition and music-listening)?

The achromatopsia patient in Oliver Sacks new book AN ANTHROPOLOGIST
FROM MARS (Knopf 1995) is described as having a rich color life before
his stroke, including sound associations with color.

William H. Calvin               http://weber.u.washington.edu/wcalvin/





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