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🗓️ 18 December 2017
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | .jp. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:34.4 | This is Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science. |
0:39.7 | I'm Karen Hopkins. This will just take a minute. |
0:42.0 | Music includes a lot of repetition. |
0:44.3 | What would your favorite song be without a chorus? |
0:46.9 | But the connection runs even deeper than that, |
0:50.9 | because the very act of repeating something can render that thing melodious, |
0:53.9 | even the sound of a shovel being dragged across the pavement. That's |
0:54.8 | according to a study to be published soon in the journal Music and Science. A few years |
0:59.6 | back, psychologists at the University of California, San Diego discovered that when words |
1:04.3 | or phrases are repeated a few times, they can start to sound more like singing than speaking. |
1:09.2 | The sounds as they appear to you are not only different from those that are really present, |
1:14.4 | but they sometimes behave so strangely as to seem quite impossible. |
1:19.6 | But they sometimes behave so strangely, sometimes behave so strangely, sometimes behave so strangely, |
1:25.7 | sometimes behave so strangely, so strangely, so strangely, so strangely, so strangely. |
1:34.3 | The effect is perhaps not entirely surprising, talking and singing, or both forms of vocal communication. |
1:40.3 | But researchers got to wondering, could repetition also musicalize other types of sounds? |
1:45.8 | So they collected clips of 20 different environmental sounds, including water dripping, ice cracking, |
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