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nature2 years ago•3 min saved

"Therapeutic Benefits of Listening to Underground Sounds from Earth's Largest Organism"

Sound designer Jeff Rice recorded the sounds of Pando, the largest organism on Earth consisting of about 40,000 genetically identical trees connected by the same root system. Rice used a hydrophone to capture the deep, soothing rumbling sound of the tree's vast root system during a thunderstorm. Listening to nature sounds has been found to have mood-boosting, pain-relieving, and stress-reducing effects, and Rice's recordings of Pando could have immense potential for exploring the inner workings of the tree's hidden hydraulic system, root depth, insect colonies, and much more.

via Yahoo! Voices|

#largest-organism #natural-sounds #nature

neuroscience2 years ago•4 min saved

Predicting Natural Sound Processing through Brain Activity Analysis.

Researchers at CNRS and Université Aix-Marseille and Maastricht University have used computational models to predict how the human brain transforms sounds into semantic representations of what is happening in the surrounding environment. The team assessed three classes of computational models, namely acoustic, semantic and sound-to-event DNNs, and found that DNN-based models greatly surpassed both computational approaches based on acoustics and techniques that characterize cerebral responses to sounds by placing them in different categories. The researchers also hypothesized that the human brain makes sense of natural sounds similarly to how it processes words.

via Medical Xpress|

#brain-processing #computational-models #deep-neural-networks