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Zazenp t1_j60se36 wrote
Reply to comment by Seraph062 in TIL the reason that farmers flood rice fields isn't to water the plants, as you might expect. It's done to keep away pests and weeds, and to protect against uneven rainfall. by Ninja_In_Shaddows
If being submerged under water isn’t considered “too much water”, then what is?
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Reply to comment by catpunch_ in Happy rather than sad music soothes newborns — findings suggest that newborns do react to emotions in music, and that responses to music are present at birth by marketrent
This is part of ongoing research. Some studies have demonstrated it is learned while this study demonstrates that something innate may be at play.
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Reply to comment by _Atheius_ in New research shows why we hear “lemon” and not “melon” in processing incoming sounds: our brains “time-stamp” the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear by giuliomagnifico
This is discussing the biology of the brain and not the cognition of it. It’s important to remember that our brain is nothing more than neurons that either fire or don’t fire. The neurons don’t have consciousness themselves. You can identify a “ck” sound as different from a “oh” sound because different neurons pathways fire when they detect different audio signals as they hit your ear. That means each sound goes down a different pathway in your brain. Those pathways are NOT exactly the same length which means they may not hit your “audio processing cognition areas” in the correct order.
This is exploring the mechanism the brain uses to know the order of the syllables heard in spite of them going through different pathways. They found a neurological “buffer” that seems to be firing in patterns that would support a time stamp system so the brain can keep track of the word of sounds it heard to form them together as words.
Zazenp t1_j60thy8 wrote
Reply to comment by ZhouDa in TIL the reason that farmers flood rice fields isn't to water the plants, as you might expect. It's done to keep away pests and weeds, and to protect against uneven rainfall. by Ninja_In_Shaddows
Ah, because of the electrolytes…