{"id":10112,"date":"2024-03-01T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/?p=10112"},"modified":"2024-04-18T07:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:39:52","slug":"auditory-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/2024\/03\/auditory-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditory Optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Advanced auditory processing is a distinct characteristic of mammals. Although other animals such as birds also use sophisticated auditory information, mammals have refined vocal expression as a means for social inference &#8211; continually updating information on the status and locations of the group members. Our subspecies of primates ran with this and evolved mid-range auditory signals into a complex information transmission medium. The demand this places on the sensory apparatus far outweighs the underlying auditory function of spatial awareness of the surroundings, which is also a foundational attribute of our evolutionary success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our urban setting and technologies offer a diminished scope for auditory inputs &#8211; much of our sound originates from our devices or enclosed built surroundings. Consequently, auditory processing exercises can be effective for extending our complex and sophisticated auditory sensing &#8211; a significant portion of our high-level brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Description of the Exercise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The outline line of this exercise is to attempt to locate the origin of a sound with eyes closed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The sound source is triggered from a random location around the head.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then the sound origin is pointed to with the eyes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The eyes are then opened to verify the location.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Repeat from multiple locations around the head.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stop the exercise before the accuracy decreases significantly (fatigue).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The characteristics of the sound are quite important. Mid-frequency short sharp bursts of sound are better. I have found that a brass Snap Hook makes an effective sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/auditoryTraining.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If the exercise is found to be too challenging to do standing, try doing it sitting down, on all fours, or lying supine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>explores exercises for auditory enhancement, focusing on sound localization and mid-frequency sounds to improve spatial awareness and communication, countering the auditory limitations of modern environments\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,84,23,48],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-10112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-ergonomics","category-evolution","category-manual-therapy","tag-ri"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}