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Short Booms Still Annoying: How Mid-Level Noise Bursts Affect Concentration of Arithmetic-Solving Test Subjects
October 18, 2012 — Noise can be distracting, especially to a person trying to concentrate on a difficult task. Studying annoying noises helps architects design better building environments and policy makers choose ... > full story -
Dinosaur-Era Acoustics: Global Warming May Give Oceans the 'Sound' of the Cretaceous
October 18, 2012 — Global temperatures directly affect the acidity of the ocean, which in turn changes the acoustical properties of sea water. New research suggests that global warming may give Earth’s oceans the ... > full story -
Do Re Mi Fa ... How Do You Know What Comes Next?
October 15, 2012 — How do you remember a song -- and why is it that a beginning pianist who forgets the middle of a melody needs to start over again to recall the tune? The answer, say researchers, is that two ... > full story -
The Worst Noises in the World: Why We Recoil at Unpleasant Sounds
October 12, 2012 — Heightened activity between the emotional and auditory parts of the brain explains why the sound of chalk on a blackboard or a knife on a bottle is so ... > full story -
Singing Mice Show Signs of Learning
October 10, 2012 — Guys who imitate Luciano Pavarotti or Justin Bieber to get the girls aren't alone. Male mice may do a similar trick, matching the pitch of other males' ultrasonic serenades. The mice also have ... > full storyMore: -
New Findings on the Workings of the Inner Ear
October 2, 2012 — The sensory cells of the inner ear have tiny hairs called stereocilia that play a critical part in hearing. It has long been known that these stereocilia move sideways back and forth in a wave-like ... > full story -
Songs in the Key of Sea
September 28, 2012 — Scientists have used special algorithms to create musical patterns from data collected from microbes in the western English ... > full story -
Hearing Brains Are 'Deaf' to Disappearance of Sounds, Study Reveals
September 27, 2012 — Our brains are better at hearing new and approaching sounds than detecting when a sound disappears, according to a new study. The findings could explain why parents often fail to notice the sudden ... > full story -
Musical Clues to the Truth About Female Sleuths
September 25, 2012 — By analyzing the soundtracks of 1940s film noir thrillers, a musicologist can track changing attitudes to women -- moving away from the classic femme fatale and love interest to the independent ... > full story -
'He Says, She Says': How Characteristics of Automated Voice Systems Affect Users' Experience
September 21, 2012 — Human factors/ergonomics researchers have studied how the gender and tone selected for an interactive voice response system, or IVR, affects its ... > full story
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