Here at Boing Boing, we've discussed misophonia - also known as "sound rage" or, as this article in the journal PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science) describes it, "a disorder characterized by a ...
The Shepard tone creates a way to build conflict or ramp up tension. In film, it is intended to give a sense of discomfort or ...
That work led to the Multisensory Correlation Detector (MCD), which could imitate human responses to simple audiovisual ...
The sounds aren't just a scientific curiosity, though. The tenuous gas and plasma that drifts between the galaxies in galaxy clusters – known as the intracluster medium – is denser and much, much ...
Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in ...
A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance s ...
Grunts, barks, screams and pants ring through Taï National Park in Cȏte d’Ivoire. Chimpanzees there combine these different calls like linguistic Legos to relay complex meanings when communicating, ...