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POPSPeople May be Able to Taste Words He and his co-author, Cesare Parise, tested 12 volunteers in trials during which an image flashed up on a screen at a slightly different time to one of two tones - one low-pitched and one high-pitched - being played. There were two sets of image: a large and a small black dot, or an angular and a very rounded shape, Dots of a certain size match tones of a certain pitch. People associate the low-pitched sound with the larger dot
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POPS"I am awed by the scale of social change this stuff represents." More: Imagine a science fiction story written 50 years ago like Written 50 years ago, this would be radical left-wing speculation, right? As would a straight description of, say, an office party where I work. The research, management, and support staff a wild mix of different races and sexes? Female mathematicians and engineers and scientists doing lots of the research and work? Half the staff East or South Asian or Latin American, and a good fraction of the US-born staff black? C'mon--that crap will never happen, that's like something out of science fiction.
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