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 ...
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 ...
That work led to the Multisensory Correlation Detector (MCD), which could imitate human responses to simple audiovisual ...
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 ...
ANTIBES, France -- In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and ...
ANTIBES, France -- In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and ...