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Futureproof Extra: How We Hear

What’s happening when you listen to this podcast?  Jonathan has exhaled air and by moving part...

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07.00 25 May 2020


Futureproof Extra: How We Hear



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07.00 25 May 2020


What’s happening when you listen to this podcast? 

Jonathan has exhaled air and by moving parts of his mouth and throat, changed the sounds that the air makes as it exits his lungs and flows out into the atmosphere around him. 

Forgetting the microphone, the radio and whatever other middlemen that are involved in between for a moment, you are then receiving and interpreting this sound that he has made.

How?

James Hudspeth is a Biophysicist and Neuroscientist in The Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University.


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