Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uceng!minerva!dmocsny
From: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Is there a clock in the brain?
Summary: Ask your neighborhood drummer
Keywords: Experiment.  Time-resolution.  Counter/timer.
Message-ID: <4176@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 90 19:46:24 GMT
References: <3377@uwm.edu>
Sender: news@uceng.UC.EDU
Organization: University of Cincinnati, Cin'ti., OH
Lines: 26

In article <3377@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
>   * Is there a clock in the human brain?  I mean a clock which behaves like a
>counter/timer peripheral as it would for a CPU.
>
>and
>
>   * Can you *program* a clock into your brain?

Ask any good drummer. A good drummer can not only play at a requested
tempo, measured in beats per minute, but can also delay and/or
advance particular hits by milliseconds to give a desired "feel"
to the music.

I think if you are interested in brains and timing, you should be
talking to your musician friends. Or get yourself a MIDI sequencer
and play around with it. You can *easily* hear the difference when
you adjust tempo of a song slightly, or adjust timing of individual
notes by not very many milliseconds.



--
Dan Mocsny				Snail:
Internet: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu	Dept. of Chemical Engng. M.L. 171
	  dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu		University of Cincinnati
513/751-6824 (home) 513/556-2007 (lab)	Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0171