Contemporary Cognitive Neuroscience :Brain and Mind-Feeling and Perception
焦傳金教授 Professor Dr. Chiao.
耳朵除了扮演聆聽的角色外，還兼具平衡的功能，而人工電子耳的發明可以幫助聽障人士重拾聽覺與平衡。而還有一種耳機卻不是利用耳朵來傳遞聲音，是用耳骨，而這樣據說可以降低耳朵的損害。
提到利用其他器官聽音樂，讓我想到一部電影:「走出寂靜」。講述父母皆為聽障人士的拉娜，其實有著潛在的音樂天分，但因為父母皆為聾啞人士，所以家中長期沒有出現音樂聲。在某次聖誕節時，姑姑借給拉娜她小時候吹的豎笛，發現拉娜的天分後，鼓勵她學習音樂。而過程中卻發生了與父親的對立。由於聽不到聲音，父親對於自己有著自卑，不希望女兒學習音樂，可是又抵擋不住拉娜對於音樂的熱愛。而在最後拉娜的比賽中，父親雖然前面都反對，但還是默默來到現場加油，握著觀眾席的鐵製欄杆，感受上面的震動，用不同的方式聆聽到女兒的音樂。
這部電影讓我非常感動，除了劇中家庭間的相處模式外，拉娜在音樂、愛人、家庭、手足間的協調與奔波，都讓觀眾徹底體會到這些愛有多深，而她在音樂與父母間的掙扎，更是加深了戲劇張力，讓最後爸爸來觀賽時握著欄杆的手更加觸動人心。「走出寂靜」告訴我們，音樂，不一定只能用耳朵，用其他器官一樣可以將樂音傳遞到心中。
As our ears play an indispensable role of listening and body balance, except the innovation of artificial electronic ears, there is a special earphone which can transfer music by the ear bone. While that it is said to lower the damage of our ears.
Speaking of listening music by other organs, I have seen a movie, called ‘’Beyond Silence’’. Lara had parents who were both deaf, so that Lara’s talent of music hadn’t ben found because the there was never music in the house. However, in a Christmas eve, her aunt lent her clarinet to her and found that she had a gift of playing the instrument. During the way her aunt persuading her to learn the music, Lara and her father also had a fierce fight at the same time.
Because her father had low self-esteem of being deaf, he had difficulty to accept her daughter learning music. Although he showed oppose aspect to Lara’s decision, he finally went to see her first context. In the hall, he grabbed the mental railings and felt the resonance on it to listen Lara’s music.
I was touching by the plot that Lara’s love to music, her lover, family and her sibling. That the deeper her love to them all, the more suffering when she faced the problem between them. Accordingly, we can learn that it is not only ears can hear the melody, we can use other way to let the music to enter our heart.
