Chapter 1
Neurological Process
• What are the differences of “Hearing” and
“Listening”?
• Hearing is the primary physiological
system that allows for reception and
conversion of sound waves that surround
the listener.
• Hearing is also the sense that is often
identified with our experience of
participating in events.
• Tomatis (1991) calls “cortical recharging”,
a kind of refuelling of the dynamism of the
brain, which is responsible for both spatial
orientation (balance), temporal orientation
(timing), as well as wgat J.H. Austin (1998)
call’ interoception”, the monitoring of
sensate data for our internal bodily
systems.
• When do you have the action of hearing?
• Do you hear what I hear?
The Differences Between Hearing
and Listening
• A degree of intention
• Audition takes place through excitation
patterns (in the inner ear and auditory
nerve become automated through
experience with familiar stimuli)
• Consciousness is the most fundamental
concept when we consider listening to be
an active process.
• Listening and hearing are the process of
brain action and different individual
neurones action. (cognitive procedure)
• Consciousness involves the activation of
portions of the listener’s model of the
surrounding world. (self-center)
• See page 12