From: Ben Dawson (dawson.derbys@clara.net)
Date: Thu 09 Mar 2006 - 22:20:20 GMT
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:49:28 +0100, you wrote:
>It would be very interesting to see your brainactivity while remembering
>this and what areas in your brain are triggered when you recall hearing this
>music. I think it might hold part of the answer to your question.
>
>Klaas.
>
It's already been done. It's called a "brain itch" apparently.
I remember reading about it some time ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4332771.stm
I would be interested to know why it's always the really irritating
tunes that get stuck there, rather than your favourites that you'd be
happy to listen to all day long.
Ben
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
>Chris Taylor
>Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:21 AM
>To: Memetics
>Subject: Top 'o the mornin' to you
>
>Right. I have a tricky one (and an old one, but for some reason I was
>engrossed in it last night):
>
>I have always considered myself quite lucky in being one of these people
>with a jukebox in their head (I can run through whole albums in some cases).
>Now I wouldn't claim that what I imagine/recall is precisely what one might
>find on vinyl, but it is pretty convincing, which is the crux...
>
>So am I literally 'hearing' it (could someone _very_ clever ultimately rig a
>sensor to a speaker and hear it for real -- sort of 'playing' the
>(~)meme(plex), or am I remembering the experience of hearing it (sort of an
>extended self-delusory episode)? Is this like what I 'see' which is in fact
>radically different from the pattern of light impacting my retinas, having
>been heavily processed, mapped onto objects and so on? I'm pretty sure that
>auditory cortex will be lighting up, but we couldn't really say why.
>
>On a tangent, it strikes me that tunes make for meme amenable to study as we
>shortcut most of the internal representational issues.
>
>Anyway, logorrhoea sufferers abhor a vacuum (which is why my carpets are
>filthy).
>
>Cheers, Chris.
>
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