Post by mmadaio on Apr 12, 2016 13:50:17 GMT
To Judy's point, it might be the case that seeing the world in metaphors is a top-down process, while simile and analogy-building happen from the bottom-up. I look at something like "I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas," or "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough." and that seems to be a top-down, gestalt transformation or mapping of one complex concept to another, rather than the bottom-up feature selection and matching of similes like "Apollo came down like the night". But I'd like to discuss this more.
Regarding the "Just noticeable difference", as a former percussion instructor, I would regularly listen and offer feedback to students on the timing of their playing, and would need to give meaningful feedback about very slight differences, such as between 18 notes per second (sextuplets at 180bpm) and 21 notes per second. This was (obviously) very difficult when I was just starting, and it's just sort of assumed in that community that everyone can and should be able to notice these differences. This chapter focused much more on visual than auditory, but I'd be interested to see what the Weber function looks like for timing of sounds.
Regarding the "Just noticeable difference", as a former percussion instructor, I would regularly listen and offer feedback to students on the timing of their playing, and would need to give meaningful feedback about very slight differences, such as between 18 notes per second (sextuplets at 180bpm) and 21 notes per second. This was (obviously) very difficult when I was just starting, and it's just sort of assumed in that community that everyone can and should be able to notice these differences. This chapter focused much more on visual than auditory, but I'd be interested to see what the Weber function looks like for timing of sounds.
