I went to be evaluated by a cognative psychologist yesterday -- they had to make sure that all the bits were still working okay.

So, I walked from Union Station to 600 N. McClurg (just north of Navy Pier) and had my appointment.

There was some sort of IQ test thing and then they tested cognative/motor, spacial reasoning, memory, and a whole buncha other stuff.

It lasted 4 hours.
It was hard.
It was fun.
It was frustrating.
It was cool.

Then my dad picked me up (he's working on a downtown right now) and we had lunch b4 i caught the train of thought back home.

Weird day.

Hope everything went well, and you find out you are only as impaired as the average Chicago musician;)

Thanks, Paul!

By the way.. I never found out what your poster was about.
So... info, please?
And how did it go?

I think I took something similar when I was about 7. They were discovering that I had one hell of an attention deficit, but with none of the usual hyperactive disorder... that's the part that was fooling them at first. I was mellow, instead of bouncing off the walls like all the other ADD kids.

Seems like I had to hold a little bar up to a hole in sheet metal, and couldn't let it touch the edges, and see how long I could hold it that way...? That's one image that sticks out.

Ok well you asked twice, so now its your fault

Spoken transposed pseudowords (PLATSER/ PLASTER) were used to investigate perception of temporal ordering. Low-pass filtered transposed stimuli activated their targets suggesting an ‘ungluing’ of the temporal ordering of segments. When potentially conflicting segmental information is analyzed in a way consistent with misleading coarticulatory information, temporal reordering of segmental information occurs.

Now what does this mean? Well I looked at how manipulating acoustic information could actually make you misperceive the order of the sounds.. so hearing PLASTER even though acoustically, the stimulus was PLATSER...why do I study this? well in an attempt to articulate a realistic model of how humans process spoken words...

It went fine, no one even looked at my poster (that is something Im quite proud of, scare them away with jargon)

That is cool.
I know about this phenomena in WRITTEN communication/perception, but wasn't aware that it also existed acoustically.

There actually may be some use for this in musical composition, I think. Our ears are also trained to hear music a certain way, from childbirth and there may be some use for this, compositionally.

Although, I imagine that results would differ in different cultures.

Cool. And thanks for sharing, Paul!

I used to work with a neuropsychologist and volunteered for a full neuropsych battery one time to help one of his psychometrists who was in training. IQ, motor, verbal, visuo-spatial tasks, the whole deal. I am ostensibly "normal" and I found it to be challenging as hell. For me, I hate being timed at anything, and so many of the tests were on the clock. I wasn't feeling so cool by the end of the session.