Everyone has that one sound that makes their skin crawl. Maybe it is a colleague who keeps clicking a pen during a meeting, or someone chewing loudly beside you on a quiet train. These everyday noises ...

Neuroscientists have analyzed how people react when they listen to a range of different sounds, the aim being to establish the extent to which repetitive sound frequencies are considered unpleasant.

Being someone who has ADHD means that their brain experiences the world in a much different way than others. Things can often feel so much louder and intense than people without ADHD even realize. In ...

Misophonia is a disorder in which specific pattern-based and repetitive sounds as well as visuals cause sympathetic nervous system arousal (the fight/flight response). The nervous system reacts within ...

Stimming—short for "self-stimulatory behavior"—is a form of self-soothing commonly seen in autistic people. It can involve repetitive movements, sounds, or actions and is commonly regarded in medical ...

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) ...