The academic dissertation was publicly discussed with due permission of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki on November 30th, 1996
Opponent was Prof. Kenneth Hugdahl from the Faculty of Biological and Medical Psychology at University of Bergen , Norway.
Waiting for the performance to commence.
Lectio Precursora
The opponent and the custodian Professor Näätänen
Listening to words of wisdom
Tough question: 210 ms plus 600 ms equals 600 ms. How can that be?
Strange, what does he mean? Bip - bip, two pulses and 600 ms in between.
These are not so easy to distinguish, you know, if you have Chopin's pianoconcerto No 1 in the background
Exactly, with a little pause in between, as you can see on the blackboard, there is a big difference
This man did an unbelievable job, simultaneously translating the discussion into sign language
Finally, listening to words of praise.
The struggle is over, fortunately it was not so hard as the one going on in the background.