“Sound and the mind are very, very intricately linked, and yet we almost never pay attention to sound. Sound is always there. It’s our early warning system. It’s also our emotional driver. It’s our attentional driver. Everything you hear has some kind of an impact on you and changes how you respond to the rest of the world.”
- Seth Horowitz, auditory neuroscientist at Brown University and author of the new book The Universal Sense
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From Seth’s 4-minute story “Sound A Major Emotional Driver For Humans” from NPR’s All Things Considered, September 7, 2012
