Repetitive Sounds Are Music to the Brain
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🗓️ 18 December 2017
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| 0:38.0 | Music includes a lot of repetition. What would your favorite song be without a chorus? |
| 0:42.0 | But the connection runs even deeper than that. What would your favorite song be without a chorus? |
| 0:43.0 | But the connection runs even deeper than that, because the very act of repeating something |
| 0:47.3 | can render that thing melodious, even the sound of a shovel being dragged across the pavement. That's according to a study to be published soon in the journal Music and Science. |
| 0:57.0 | A few years back, psychologists at the University of California San Diego discovered that when words or phrases are repeated a few times, they can start to sound more like singing than speaking. |
| 1:07.0 | The sounds as they appear to you are not only different from those that are really present, |
| 1:12.0 | but they sometimes behave so strangely as to seem quite impossible. |
| 1:17.0 | But they sometimes behave so strangely, sometimes behave so strangely, sometimes behave so strangely, so strangely, so strangely, so strangely, so strangely, so strangely, so strangely, so strangely, so strangely, so strange. |
| 1:32.6 | The effect is perhaps not entirely surprising, talking and singing or both forms of |
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