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Take a Sonic Tour of the Brain

Posted by timothy on from the all-in-your-head dept.

Duncan J Murray writes "Currently exhibiting at The Barbican, London is an exhibit on Neuroscience, which includes this 20-minute auditory exhibit looking at (or should that be listening to) — sounds of neurons firing, simulations of cochlear implants, the mosquito frequency, neverending scales, phantom words and speech reconstructed from intracranial electrophysiological recording, as well as other auditory illusions. It is worth a listen."

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  1. 17kHz Mosquito Frequency? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...supplied in an mp3 file with 16kHz cutoff.

    1. Re:17kHz Mosquito Frequency? by Jonah+Hex · · Score: 2

      I see no indication that the mp3 is anything but the version they plan to use at the exhibit. If you look up a few directories you see that they do have some older versions in mp3, wav, and m4a; but the final is mp3 only. I have a feeling they converted to mp3 without knowing that they were cutting out the higher frequencies by doing so. Of course even without the "mosquito sound" I bet all the youngsters would claim to hear it just because they are supposed to. ;) - HEX

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  2. Misleading Headline. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Came here expecting Sonic the Hedgehog.