Prof Hugh McDermott from Melbourne’s Bionics Institute suggests that while the frequency of the device you are listening on does have an impact, there are “a lot of different factors playing into it”. This lady wears hearing aids and even with them on, she couldnt hear and understand. frequencies of the Y might have been made artificially higher, and the frequencies that make the L sound might have been dropped.” “Most sounds - including L and Y, which are among the ones at issue here - are made up of several frequencies at once. Speaking to the Verge, Mr Riecke suggests the “secret is frequency ? but some of it is also the mechanics of your ears, and what you’re expecting to hear”.
This argument is further supported by an assistant professor of audition and cognitive neuroscience Lars Riecke at Maastricht University. At 52 his ears lack high frequency sensitivity, a natural result of ageing and secondly, a difference in pronunciation between the North American accented computer-generated “Yanny” and “Laurel” and how the words would naturally be spoken in Australian or British English. That lack of ambiguity he says is probably down to two reasons: firstly his age. The collaborations are growing, and so is the desire to find out more.Prof Alais says that for him, and presumably many others, it’s “100 per cent Yanny” without any ambiguity. Similarly, The McGurk Effect presents a puzzling phenomenon in the interaction of vision and speech. It also demonstrated the incredible subjectivity of our hearing. Most famously, the Laurel/Yanny internet phenomenon of 2018 brought speech interpretation illusions into the spotlight. The technical possibilities continue to develop. There are a number of speech-related auditory illusions. We want to go even further with the research. Martine Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis: " Please know that this is not the end point of our research, but an intermediate station. The Girl hasn’t revealed the secret of her identity yet, but we got to know her better through a unique collaboration of an international team of scientists using state-of-the-art techniques. This examination has also documented the current condition of the painting, meaning we can optimally monitor any changes that may occur in the future." Even further Girl with a Pearl Earring is a more personal image than was previously thought. Combining and comparing different scientific technologies has provided so much more information than a single technology would have done on its own (fig. In fact, an estimated 70 to 80 of people with schizophrenia hear voices. These discoveries make the Girl more ‘personal’ than previously thought, but the question of who exactly the Girl was still remains a mystery.Ībbie Vandivere, head of research team: " Our scientific examination has brought us closer to Vermeer and the Girl than ever before. Auditory hallucinations, or hearing voices, is a common symptom in people living with schizophrenia. However, while to the naked eye the Girl has always appeared to have had no eyelashes, macro-X-ray fluorescence scanning and microscopic examination did reveal that Vermeer painted tiny hairs around both eyes.
They depict a certain type or character in this case a girl wearing an oriental turban and an improbably large pearl in her ear.Įven though a girl possibly sat and posed for this painting, there are no moles, scars or freckles to be seen.
In Vermeer’s day these kind of studies were referred to as tronies. It displays too few distinctive features for that. Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring was not a portrait. The research team made a number of discoveries that make the Girl a lot more personal.” We were keen to find out: who was the Girl with the Pearl Earring? Martine Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis: “Spoiler alert: no, we didn't find out who this young lady was and if she ever really existed.
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