Here is the Ig Informal Lecture by the winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. [In non-pandemic years, […]
Tag: sounds
PhD Fellowship in Meal Detection by Analysis of Bowel Sounds
On March 14, 2019, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) posted this ad: PhD Fellowship in Meal Detection by Analysis of Bowel Sounds We have a vacancy for a PhD fellowship within analysis of bowel sounds for meal detection in diabetes patients at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics (ITK), Faculty of Information Technology […]
Interactive map of grunts, groans, sighs and other sounds
A surprisingly vocal map of human sounds and emotions now exists online. This map is not a geographical map, it is a noisy map: The map, and the whats and wheres of it, get a detailed description in the study “Mapping 24 emotions conveyed by brief human vocalization,” Alan S. Cowen, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Petri […]
Borborygmi and alternative-to-colonoscopy news
News.com.au reports: Nobel winner’s device listens to your gut A non-invasive way for detecting gut disorders could replace the dreaded colonoscopy, West Australian researchers say Gut disorders could be detected without the need for dreaded, invasive colonoscopies thanks to an invention by West Australian researchers, led by a Nobel Prize laureate. A University of WA […]
Vocalised Sounds During Sex [research study]
“Vocalised Sounds and Human Sex,” Roy J. Levin, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, vol. 21, 2006, pp. 99-107. The author, at the University of Sheffield, UK, reports: “[An] early study of the coital behaviour of a single Caucasian married couple (Fox & Fox, 1969)… highlights the complexity of the vocal behaviour of but one female, which […]
Orthographic effects on rhyme monitoring
Rhyme monitoring offers countless opportunities for a watchful person. A few of those opportunities were seized, resulting in this study: “Orthographic effects on rhyme monitoring,” Mark S. Seidenberg [pictured here] and Michael K. Tanenhaus, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, vol. 5, no. 6, 1979, pp. 546-54. Here’s detail from the study:
Drunken sounds are ‘easy’, but in an unexpected way
The science of acoustics reveals an unexpected possible truth about drunks and language, says this study: “Studying Hard and Easy Sounds with Drunken Speech,” Abby Kaplan [pictured here] (University of Utah), Acoustical Society of America – 161st Meeting Lay Language Papers, Presented Tuesday morning, May 24, 2011, 161st ASA Meeting, Seattle, Washington, Popular version of […]
Brainwaves – recorded
“The closer I examine the brain, the less I learn about the mind. Rather, what has been most informative about the mind is how people—neuroscientists and non-neuroscientists alike—interpret neuroscience data. Some cognitive neuroscientists have proposed the qualities we hold most precious as humans, like morality and free will, exist only in the context of human […]
Recognitions – part 4 – “Sloshing sounds courtesy of…”
The CNBC not only provides a freely available online source of Greebles, Tribbles and Yadgits, (see previous article in this series) but also links to the Auditory Lab at Carnegie Mellon University Psycholgy Department, headed by professor Laurie Heller. The lab hosts a huge archive of carefully produced audio recordings provided for research purposes. Hear […]
Animal sounds by humans (international)
The Bzzzpeek project collects sounds that people make to imitate various animals. They also collect imitations of vehicle sounds. They recently added Bulgarian imitators to the mix. (Thanks to investigator Jean Berko Gleason for bringing this to our attention.)