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B Shanon

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PubMed1984

Asymmetries in musical aesthetic judgments.

Musicians and non-musicians, male and females, were presented with different selections of classical music, both mono- and poly-instrumental, under stereophonic conditions which allowed them to reverse the left-right distribution of the auditory material. The musicians preferred the leading (usually the high) voice to be heard by the left ear; the effect was noted with both sexes but it was significant only with the males. The results are examined in relation to other laterality patterns and an analogy to orchestral arrangements in both the West and the East is noted.

Auditory Perception↗
PubMed1979

Lateralization effects in response to words and non-words.

Subjects were timed as they judged whether items presented to them were words or not. In one experiment responses to nouns and verbs were compared, in a second experiment ones to concrete and abstract nouns were compared. In both experiments responses to pronounceable and non-pronounceable non-words were also compared. By and large, no significant main lateralization effects nor interactions with word type were found.

Brain Mapping↗
PubMed1976

Aristotelianism, Newtonianism and the physics of the layman.

Written and visual surveys were administered in order to assess people's models of the phsyical world. A comparison was made between scientific theories and the layman's philosophy of nature on the one hand, and between people's conceptions and perceptions on the other hand. The findings suggest that there are discrepancies on both levels: people do not conceive the world as physicists do, and their conceptions are different from their perception.

Humans↗