antiterra3 hours ago
Looks to be an AI summary of:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience...
Scienceblog.com is an extremely low quality site. Looks like an old content farm ‘splog’ that upgraded from markov chain nonsense to LLMs.
Aerolfos3 hours ago
For those who want a more pop-science approach, this video (despite the clickbait) is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTvr8L5v8u8
I believe it references that article, too
xg15an hour ago
I think it's interesting that a lot of "eery" or "threatening" scores in movies or games have a strong bass component. I wonder if that's the same underlying effect and the research just found out that it continues working even after the sound drops out of the audible range.
voidUpdate3 hours ago
I've heard that some frequencies can also wobble your eyeball in just the right way to create visual distortions. Not as in straight up creating ghost images, but similar to what happens when you press on your eyeballs and your vision can become blurry or shift
ordu3 hours ago
Now it will be possible to create haunted buildings, or even repurpose existing ones. Does haunting increase a building value?
aaron6952 hours ago
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