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Re: Oohashi

"I need to do a better check: for now I just ran a quick Google search and found citations by people such as David Griesinger (of Lexicon), James Boyk (director of Cal Tech music lab and lecturer in its dept. of electrical engineering), and a bunch of faculty at psychology, music, and various tech depts. around the States(Berkeley etc.). Plus a co-authored piece in an audio engineering journal in Germany (which I can't recall now). These were all references that seemed to take the Oohashi et al. paper seriously. And then of course the references in Stereophile and other audio fora."

These are not the type of references that lend credibility to a study. These references are merely using the results/conclusions of the study to support or interpret their own interests and phenomena. What is singularly lacking is any independent duplication and confirmation of Oohashi's work. That does not mean it is wrong but, rather, that it is unconfirmed and no other competent neurophysiologists seem excited enough to do so.

"I would think J of Neurophysiology must be quite a respectable publication in the field (of which I know nothing to be sure). There was moreover another paper by Oohashi in 2006 in Elsevier's Brain Research journal, 16 February 2006, in which the conclusions are that this HF effect with a bearing on listening preferences and manifest in brain function responses may not have anything to do with "the conventional air-conducting auditory system," since this effect was manifest "only when the listener's entire body surface was exposed to High Frequency Components, but not when HFC was presented exclusively to the air-conducting auditory system." (They used a loudspeakers vs. headphones type of a setup.)"

This seems to be consistent with the strange results of Oohashi's localization of brain responses to regions which are, to a great degree, not generally associated with audition.

Instead of ripping apart a series of unduplicated reports, I'd rather regard them as intriguing and await independent confirmation.

Kal

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