Although the problem has not disappeared, Mr. Sack, who is co-vice president of the 300/400 East 68th Street Block Association, said the Blockwatchers, who are trained by police to watch, listen and report accurately, have made a difference.
In particular, a prediction arising from Jamesian bodily feedback theories is that activity in the body should more strongly influence cognitive affective processing in those individuals that can accurately listen in to it ("interoception": see Dunn, Galton, et al., 2010a; Werner, Jung, Duschek & Schandry 2009).
In a recent episode, it sent Cindy Crawford to New England and then to several places in Europe to research her forebears (or, more accurately, to listen to an expert who had researched them for her), giving root-digging a telegenic boost.
After all, if congenitally blind people are able to listen to and then accurately identify the red apple in a basket of Granny Smiths using the same area of the brain as sighted people, why should that area be considered visual?
Listen to instructions and accurately repeat them back?
We listen to Obama saying, accurately though defensively, that he had ordered a review of the NSA metadata program before Snowden's leaks.
Knowing of Hitchens's legendary appetite for conversation, I had fantasized about talking (or, more accurately, listening) late into the night, but the party had broken up around midnight, with Hitchens, coffee mug in hand, wandering off into the fug.
But one woman with links to the Caribbean island nation of Dominica has been watching (or more accurately, listening) to Dimbleby even closer than others – just hoping he will get the country's name right.
More recent studies have shown that surgeons perform math calculations faster and more accurately when they listen to music they like.
