What Do Urban Sounds Do to Your Brain?
source: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/24-what-do-urban-sounds-do-your-brain
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A sonic tour of New York, from the agonizing screech of the Union Square subway station to one of the quietest rooms in the city: Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
We live in a sonic world, immersed in vibrations that stimulate microscopic hair cells deep inside our ears. This unseen energy influences our mood, our learning, even our health. We experience it as comforting music, as information-laden speech, or—all too often—as irritating noise, a by-product of our increasingly mechanized world. Despite all the ways sound affects us, we often let it slip unnoticed into the background of our lives. Hoping to understand it better, I set out to explore the mysteries of sound in the course of one day.
Read the whole article at the link.
We live in a sonic world, immersed in vibrations that stimulate microscopic hair cells deep inside our ears. This unseen energy influences our mood, our learning, even our health. We experience it as comforting music, as information-laden speech, or—all too often—as irritating noise, a by-product of our increasingly mechanized world. Despite all the ways sound affects us, we often let it slip unnoticed into the background of our lives. Hoping to understand it better, I set out to explore the mysteries of sound in the course of one day.
Read the whole article at the link.
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sicksadworld
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Well, of course, living in a world full of mechanical and man made noises is going to influence the mind.
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sicksadworld
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JulyJones
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Yes alarm clocks are the worst. I stopped using mine and just play a song on my cell phone now. It's a lot more peaceful to wake up to a song than "arrhnt arrhnt arrhnt"
It would be nice if everybody could just take a day and drive out to the country and just sit. It's relaxing to just listen to natural sounds.
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JulyJones
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SoundBigfoot
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I cant stand alarm clocks!
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SoundBigfoot
