This cortical specialization for speech is highly consistent with behavioral results indicating that neonates' listening biases, encompassing both conspecific and heterospecific vocalizations, become attuned over the next few months of life, yielding a preference for speech over other biological sounds by 3 months.
These biases become attuned over the next few months of life, with 3-month-olds preferring speech over other biological sounds like rhesus vocalizations (Vouloumanos, Hauser, Werker & Martin, 2010) and human non-speech sounds like communicative vocalizations (e.g. laughter) and non-communicative vocalizations (e.g. coughs) (Shultz & Vouloumanos, 2010).
This kind of "pipe dreaming" doesn't seem to me to diminish my appreciation of the present moment, and over the years has attuned my mind to possibilities and opportunities that I might otherwise have missed.
When Senator Barry Goldwater and a senatorial delegation informed Nixon, in August of 1974, that his Presidency was over, Nixon, a rational man, attuned to history and politics, was wise enough to agree, though not without suffering.
But Ross and Amter's contribution is to weave together into a single, readable narrative the long and sordid history of the struggle over environmental regulation, and readers attuned to the environmental debates of the 21st century will be struck by the familiarity of the tactics developed by the polluters who came before.
Or, a situation where we are eating without hunger, which can also lead to over-eating since we are not really attuned to our hunger cues.
We are in a stage of over-stimulation, which should enable us to be more attuned to the elements that surround us.
Clarke proposed that people are psychologically attuned to discount situational factors over dispositional factors in explaining others' behaviour.
For a while, many speculated that the war would also tame Mr. Bush's instinct to go it alone, that over time it would make him better attuned to the resentments bred by America's size and its economic reach.
Early in their partnership they conferred and read the finished product to each other, but they became so attuned to each other's thinking over the years that they stopped even doing that.
Over time, the human visual system has become attuned to such statistical regularities and has expectations about how scenes should look.
