声 音 / 音 乐感知中的一个未解之谜 An Unsolved Puzzle in Sound / Music Perception 吴全丰 (Charles Q. Wu) Physically, the frequency of air vibration is one-dimensional; perceptually, however, the quality of pitch is like a two-dimensional helix: it goes from low to high, b ...
什么是神经美学? What is neuroaesthetics? Apparently it is an emerging interdisciplinary field between neuroscience and aesthetics. Although I heard the term long before, I essentially know nothing of it. This weekend there will be a conference on neuroaesthetics at UC Berkeley ( http://www.mi ...
英语中词组/短语的平行结构 在中文中,表达三个或三个以上词组/短语的平行结构的常用形式是‘ABC’(例如: “党政军”) 或‘A、B、C’(例如: “政治、经济、文化”)或‘A、B和C’(例如: “政治、经济和文化”); 但在英语中,最常用的也是逻辑上最清楚的形式是‘A, B, and C’ (for example, “party, government, and p ...
两次 诺奖得主鲍林为何失掉第三次诺奖 Why Linus Pauling failed to win the DNA race? Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994) is a great scientist as well as a great humanist. Up till now, he is the only person who has or had won two un-shared Nobel prizes: th ...
人为什么长两只眼睛? Why do human beings have two eyes in each of us? If you search “why two eyes” in English and/or Chinese, you will see that this question has been asked and answered on many websites. The most frequently offered answer to this question is like ...