Thirteen unresponsive ICU patients changed a tone using thought alone
In a Columbia study of 41 brain-injured patients who could not move or speak, a third shifted a beep’s pitch through bedside EEG, and…
Yuko Mohri’s free sound installation is at the Barbican until January
The Japanese artist’s free installation of umbrellas, apples and xylophones, set moving by humidity, magnetism and gravity, runs in London until January 24.
UConn finds an ear protein raised in the blood of tinnitus patients
Prestin, the motor protein of the inner ear’s amplifier cells, ran higher in tinnitus patients across 171 participants, though not reliably enough to diagnose…
Pink noise cost sleepers 19 minutes of REM in a Penn lab
A week of sleep-lab nights with 25 adults found that the steady hiss sold as a sleep aid trimmed dream sleep, and that foam…
Dance-music crowds wear earplugs more than other concertgoers do
In a USC survey of about 2,000 music fans, 70% of electronic dance music regulars used hearing protection against 59% of everyone else, and…
Hearing impairment tracked with dementia in a rural South African cohort
Among 567 older adults in Mpumalanga, 70% of those with dementia had impaired hearing against 36% of those with normal cognition, and the risk…
Soaak ties its sound app to your smartwatch and publishes no trial
The Tulsa company’s Find My Frequency reads sleep and heart data from five wearable brands to compose a personal track, on the strength of…
A Maine trial pits recorder lessons against music listening for aging brains
University of Maine researchers will randomize 48 older adults, half with mild cognitive impairment, to 12 weeks of learning the soprano recorder or guided…
Ohio State will test six weeks of sound bowls on 40 caregivers
A registered pilot study will measure anxiety and caregiver stress before and after weekly hour-long sessions, with no comparison group to show what the…
Tarek Atoui fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with sound from October 13
The Beirut-born composer, who builds instruments from glass, water and ceramics, takes on the free annual Hyundai Commission until April 11, with live improvised…
Hearing tests found four hearing-loss genes that diagnosis codes missed
A Vanderbilt team ran the same genetic search twice, once on billing codes for 61,469 people and once on audiograms from 16,057, and only…
Bring your own playlist to the needle and the scanner
In a 204-patient Zürich trial, patients’ own favorite music cut cannulation pain where “relaxation music” did nothing, and a 57-study review explains why choosing…
What is a sound wave, and why 432 Hz is not magic
Pressure, frequency, amplitude and resonance in plain language, and why the 432 Hz and 528 Hz “healing tuning” claims rest on one small student…
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