Learning to Listen: Neurological Evidence

Yeah I was on vacation 30 years ago and had a worbling sound in my ear.I went to the audiologist in that town/city and they ran some tests.And then asked if I was in the recording industry.I said, “no why?”
They said the only documented case were with people in the industry that have the effect where the muscle that tightens the drum to loud noises is able to stay relaxed.I said that I had a stereo, and they said to listen with less effort.

YMMV

You could supply them a funnel as a passive hearing aid?

I am not sure that the wet ware “of the ears” is really the most important.
For instance Japanese ears did not work with Navajo. But I thought that that was the wetware between the ears, more than the ear itself?
And that someone purely and ethnically Japanese, but adopted and raised Dine, would somehow have ears that genetically changed from the statistical group of Japanese to become Dine hearing ears.
Or it seems neurological more than structural..

I find the subject to almost be boring or a self aggrandising lording over one superiority…However what I do find somewhat interesting, and possibly worth sharing for consideration, is that there is a lot of work being done on perception and reality.

The thesis tis that we have an internal model of the world in our brains, and things that comport with reality, are what we call rational thoughts.

In the case of spatial skills, after a while the infant’s brain allows the input from the eye to understand that a door or a floor is something that exists in the outside world. And when we are older,. We can walk to the toilet in the dark because we have a spatial model of the house’s interior in our brain, and with a few applications of a hand on the door jam, we can get to the toilet without banging our head or stubbing our toes.

It is not the infant’s eyes that are seeing a floor. They are supplying the information to the brain, and the brain sees the floor.

In a computer one could ray trace the various instruments and their time of propagation to a listener or microphone. That technique gets a lot harder for the inverse problem where one needs to locate the instruments using the computer. First one needs to know how many of them there might be and how to separated the signals either in frequency or time.

In a spetial sense once we know that there is a bass guitar and drum set, etc… then it would be possible in the computer, and likely could be happening in our minds/brains, that we move those sources around until their location fits the input signals optimally.

Similar to the baby’s eyes, It is probably not our ears that see the instruments as imaging… it is all done in the brain, and cannot happen easily without a pair of ears.

But the brain is also able to put things into the equation that are not there in reality…
Whether it is skill that worth having depends if one has invested in a stereo… or if one is blindfolded Bruce Lee or Luke Skywalker then it is also a useful skill.

@millercarbon

When we listen for a flute for example, this is more than a conscious decision to focus on the flute. This creates neural impulses that actively tune ear cells to better hear the flute.

I find that claim pretty unbelievable.
Do you have a link?
Does it work only with the ears, or can I imagine other body parts and make them also perform new feats?

Yeah but is not saying they change at cellular level.He is saying it more like a muscular deal.