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el`Ol wrote:

At the University of Heidelberg they found an other aspect that distinguishes two kinds of listeners. They called them the fundamental listeners and the overtone listeners. It refers to perception of rising vs. falling tone intervals. They established a test that also found its way into the aditional CD of a German hifi magazine. It consisted of a number of artificially created sounds where the fundamental was not present. Instead they consisted of a formant lying at higher overtones. In every sound example (consisting of two following tones) if the virtual fundamental was rising the formant was falling vice versa. The result was that if a fundamential listener percept the interval as rising the overtone listener percept it as falling vice versa. The hifi magazine did an online evaluation to determine the hifi equipment the two kind of listers prefered.

Extremely interesting! Are they natural or acquired capacities? Is any place where is it possible to read about it in English?

Paul S wrote:

Re-reading Romy's posts I find myself thinking of the great old black and white films and the way I have responded to them over the years.

From my point of view it is a very good association. The memoires about the none-existing colors of Casablanca are more powerful than the actual colors of the "Come and see"

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