Jazz and hip hop get Katro Storm’s brushes moving. Another artist requires the repetitive sound of crashing ocean waves to work. A third, from the Bronx, needs to hear sirens, jackhammers, and the ...

Somewhere along the long, winding road of evolution, a bunch of genes got together in a conference room and decided it would probably be most optimal for human survival if we were forced to take in ...

Sound is not just something we hear—it’s vibration, and vibration interacts directly with the human body at a cellular level.

Certain everyday sounds trigger intense emotional and physical reactions in some individuals due to abnormal brain connections between auditory and emotional regions. This condition, misophonia, ...

Many people hear the word stims and picture obvious movements, yet a wide range of everyday actions fall into the same category. These behaviors help the nervous system regulate attention, soften ...

Why do the harsh sounds emitted by alarms or human shrieks grab our attention? What is going on in the brain when it detects these frequencies? Neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) ...