Johns Hopkins Magazine - September 1996 Issue

Johns Hopkins Magazine
Electronic Edition -- September 1996
A Special Issue on the Senses
Taste & Smell
Hearing
- Extending the
Orchestra
The classically trained musicians in Peabody's computer music
program are making it up as they go along--to create music that
never could be played
- From Silence to
Sound
With the cochlear implant, profoundly deaf patients can
literally "turn on" to the hearing world. The transition can be
traumatic, particularly for children. That's where Hopkins's
Listening Center comes in
- A Primer on
Hearing
- Hearing: In
Short
Vision
- The Painter's Eye
If art is in the seeing, what is it the painter sees? Hopkins
artists look to their own experience and come up with answers
that are all over the palette.
- Sensory
Surrogates
With camera eyes, sonar ears, and mechanical arms, robots
enable scientists to work in out-of-the-way sites like the
nethermost depths of the sea, or a human liver
- A Primer on
Vision
- Vision: In
Short
Touch
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