"There is something I like about the process of listening that way," she said.
Marcel Just, a cognitive neuroscientist and the center's director, said the process of listening to spoken language requires more mental effort than is apparent.
The hardest thing about democracy is the boring and irritating process of listening to people you don't agree with, which is tolerable only when each side strives not to hurt the other's feelings.
But Record Store Day is an opportunity to remember a time when the process of listening to an album was not only aural, but also visual and even physical, and to confirm that such a time is no more.
After a long process of listening to composers and learning about them, the donor and the Pearl family settled on Steve Reich as the perfect composer to compose Danny's piece.
By atomising sounds in this way, he could structure large pieces of music and spans of time, such as Partiels, that were based on an intense process of listening to an individual sound, exploding the smallest of sonic phenomena, a single note, on to the largest possible scale.
As far as I am concerned, no speech on earth is as enjoyable and useful, as elegant and sweet to the ear, as closely linked to sound intellect, as liberating for the tongue, and as beneficial for the improvement of diction as a lengthy process of listening to the way that eloquent, learned, and intelligent Bedouin talk.
"To my colleagues in the majority, my message is this: we will honor our Pledge to America, built through a process of listening to the people, and we will stand firm on the Constitutional principles that built our party, and built a nation.
In recounting her treatment of an 11-year-old girl who suffered debilitating headaches and anxiety in the wake of being abused by a neighbor, Rogers outlines a process of listening for words or even parts of words the girl repeated during therapy, remarking how motifs from her dreams connected to her waking life, and remaining alert to any physical symptoms, in this case the headaches.
These annotations play automatically, and make the process of listening to music more engaging.
