Sound… How important a role it plays in our lives. Or rather, not even the sound itself, but what it conveys to us. From “I love you!” to “You’re fired ...

I was recently watching a scene from the 2025 film Weapons for a monograph I’m writing and noticed a familiar sound: a low, unsettling drone as a character walks down a hallway. It’s the same kind of ...

Preclinical studies on animals have identified brain pathways that drive quick, protective fear responses to “scary” sounds. New from JNeurosci, Emmanouela Kosteletou-Kassotaki and colleagues, from ...