There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.


Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2011) - ISBN: 9780330471138

Oliver Sacks Quotes

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant...

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant...

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant...

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant...