Recognizing is an essential surviving skill. This is understood normally a general aspect when we recognize people, objects or animals by the sound they make. When the very similar objects make very dissimilar sounds we have certain inbuilt ‘pick up clues’ that help us identity the sound and its source.
Scientists now a days are conducting intensive research that is helped by the ‘Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)’ to understand the basic fundamentals of “how the human ear and the brain come together to help us understand our acoustic environment”.
Researchers have observed that the ‘auditory cortex’, the part of human brain that deals with sound is more adapted in each human being and the body system sets the ears in a typical tuning to the world around us. Humans continuously keep learning throughout their lifetime how to localize and identify different sounds. It is more relative in itself. Meaning thereby, if someone could hear the sounds through someone else’s ears the sounds would be altogether different to what normally we hear and recognize.
