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Reading CD Readers (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bell, E. (2024, June). Reading CD Readers. Presented at Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies, Cambridge Digital Humanities, Cambridge University

Two musical episodes at the piano keyboard in the study of human information-processing: Information as ‘cognitive good’ in interdisciplinary research (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bell, E. (2021, October). Two musical episodes at the piano keyboard in the study of human information-processing: Information as ‘cognitive good’ in interdisciplinary research. Presented at 2021 Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Toronto, ON and Online

In the early 1950s, the biologist Henry Quastler asked pianists to sight-read randomly generated musical scores as quickly and as accurately as possible. Quastler computed their performance as their “information transmission rate,” measured in bits-p... Read More about Two musical episodes at the piano keyboard in the study of human information-processing: Information as ‘cognitive good’ in interdisciplinary research.