Saturday 17 September 2011

A riddle for your inner echo chamber.
( Composers names were recorded and played backwards (so Beethoven
sounded like "Nev vote Abe")
The Auditory puzzle below requires you to dial down your impulses:
Your brain wants to just read the nonsense words back-to-front but
often "phonetically" the backward name is spelled very differently
from the forward name, so pay attention to the sounds not the spelling.
You are using words in a non linguistic way, a skill some
sound-sensitive thinkers (such as musicians)will find easy but others
will find nearly impossible.
Give it a go and activate the auditory playback mechanism in your mind.
That's the "echo chamber" that allows you to hear sounds - from a
favourite song to your lines in a play- in a silent room. Auditory
memories activate the same brain regions as actual listening,
primarily the auditory cortex in the temporal lobe.
Once you have sounded out , then flipped the syllables, you must string
them into a single word, then map it onto the name of the composer. To
call up the moniker, you tap the brain.

Eg : ( Composers names were recorded and played backwards (so Beethoven
sounded like "Nev vote Abe")


1. Cob 2.Levar 3.Eat toss 4. Naposh 5.Namoosh 6. Tross tome
7. Caught rob 8. Eat all rorks 9. Eenie choop 10. Eeks niv arts

Scroll down for the solutions.





1. Bach 2. Ravel 3. Satie 4. Chopin 5.Schumann 6. Mozart
7. Bartok 8.Scarlatti 9. Puccini 10. Stravinsky.

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