Interesting piece on NPR this morning.
"You hear anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than you see," Horowitz says, "so that everything that you perceive with your ears is coloring every other perception you have, and every conscious thought you have." Sound, he says, "gets in so fast that it modifies all the other input and sets the stage for it."
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-.../how-sound-shaped-the-evolution-of-your-brain
"You hear anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than you see," Horowitz says, "so that everything that you perceive with your ears is coloring every other perception you have, and every conscious thought you have." Sound, he says, "gets in so fast that it modifies all the other input and sets the stage for it."
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-.../how-sound-shaped-the-evolution-of-your-brain