Switch on the small gray metal box and listen: A sharp, pulsating, high-pitched tone burrows into the ear like a power drill bit, prompting an agitated, please-shut-that-blasted-thing-off grimace.

If you get goose bumps every time you hear the sound of nails on a chalkboard, you aren't alone. But scientists say it's not the high-pitch tone that makes us cringe, as previously thought. If you get ...

For those who pumped up the volume one too many times, UC Irvine researchers may have found a treatment for the hearing damage loud music can cause. For those who pumped up the volume one too many ...

Figure 1: Spectral representations of complex sounds that produce a pitch perception of 62.5 Hz. In this study, we used positron emission tomography (PET) to address the question of where in the ...