Education and demonstration – Audio recording
Patent
1985-12-24
1988-07-26
Picard, Leo P.
Education and demonstration
Audio recording
G09B 504
Patent
active
047597208
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to an appararus for learning by the super-learning method, in which the educational matter is recorded on a sound tape in adaptation to a preset cadence and expounded to the pupil by playing back the sound tape with a sound tape apparatus via an electro-acoustic transducer, being head-phones for preference, at least the second recital of the educational matter being accompanied by a piece of music equally recorded on the sound tape.
The so-called super-learning process is a learning method with which it is possible to increase one's learning performance by a multiple factor by comparison of conventional learning of text, vocabulary and the like. The observation of a series of different conditions is a presupposition for a successful application of this method.
On the one hand, the pupil should be completely relaxed during the learning process, whereas on the other hand, the educational matter has to be recorded on the sound tape in a particular cadence or rhythm and and also played back again in this rhythm during the learning process.
For example, a rhythm of this kind may have a period of 8 s, the educational matter or text passages thereof being recited during 4 s in each case after which an interval of 4 s follows without an educational recital. In this connection, it is equally of importance that the pupil should match his respiratory technique to this rhythm.
Furthermore, it was discovered that optimum learning successes are accomplished if the educational matter is initially simply listened to, and a second subsequent listening action and text recital are accompanied in the background by a piece of super-learning music, which contributes to securing the relaxation and concentration of the pupil. The concentration may finally also be increased by deliberately varying the sound level of the speech recital and with an intonation deviating from the normal idiomatic form.
There are sound tape cassettes on the market on which different languages are already recorded in readiness in this super-learning technique. The possibility also exists however that the educational matter itself may be dictated on to the sound tape. So that the conditions referred to in the foregoing may however be fulfilled to this end, what is commonly still required is a sound tape carrying the recorded clock cadence and another sound tape carrying the super-learning music. It follows from this that at least three sound tape devices or cassette recorders and supplementally a mixing board or desk were required until now, if the separate components needed were to be combined and utilised with each other in a sensible manner.
The object of the invention consists in devising a learning apparatus of lesser complexity in this respect. Furthermore, this apparatus should be simple and reliable to handle and operate.
An apparatus of the kind referred to in the foregoing is taken as a starting point to resolve this problem, and this apparatus is so organised in accordance with the invention that the educational matter and the music may be recorded on and reproduced from different tracks of a sound tape by means of a multitrack sound tape apparatus, that an acoustic speech output and at least one music output of the sound tape apparatus may be mixed in each case and that the outputs of the sound tape apparatus and the outputs of one of the following other apparatus components applicable if required may be connected to the transducer, namely the output of a cadence generator for acoustic representation of the aforesaid cadence and/or the output of a biofeedback device for acoustic representation of the prevailing state of relaxation of the pupil.
An apparatus of this kind consequently is apt to be manageable with a single multitrack sound tape apparatus and with but one sound tape organised to be operated with a plurality of tracks, the recordings on different tracks being liable to be mixed as in the case of conventional sound tape devices. The sound tape apparatus and all other apparatus components may be connected in si
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patent: 3955466 (1976-05-01), Goldmark
patent: 4354841 (1982-10-01), Meeder
Picard Leo P.
Therapy Products Muller oHG
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