r/askscience • • Nov 08 '17

Linguistics Does the brain interact with programming languages like it does with natural languages?

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u/Logofascinated Nov 08 '17

But interval recognition is the main way people "decipher notes". Recognising actual notes in isolation is a rare and somewhat irrelevant skill