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Test yourself for absolute pitch and synaesthesia
Hello dear reader It has been a crazy long week for me as I have been teaching for the Open University (OU), the main correspondence based University in the UK. The OU runs summer schools for its psychology degree and every year I attend one of these residential schools to spend a week living on campus (this year at the University of Sussex) tutoring a lovely group of students who are running their very first experiments. The week is really intense as most of these students have never met each other before coming to the school and it is part of my job to coordinate their getting together in groups…
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Do we need music?
Hello dear reader. Today I have a few thoughts on a very large question – do we need music? “I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water” – Ray Charles I am with Ray Charles; music is necessary in my life. I don’t need to hear it all hours of the day but when I need it, I really need it. I sound like an addict and maybe I…