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Questions and answers at the intersection of music, sound, technology, creativity, and culture. Curated by Greg O'Hanlon
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N+N 196 (opens the original)
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ResearchComposing with acoustic niches: A laboratory soundscape evaluation of sound installation reactivityBackground: The research supports Niches Acoustiques, a permanent sound installation being developed for the forecourt of the new Paris Judicial Court. It addresses a gap in urban sound design: cities usually try to reduce unwanted noise, but little evidence explains how added artistic sound changes people’s experience of an existing public soundscape. The team simulated the site in a labor
N+N 195 (opens the original)
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ResearchStress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events and memory inference in humansEven brief stress can make it harder for the brain to turn new information into lasting knowledge. It interferes with reactivating related memories and linking old and new ideas in the hippocampus. This can weaken the mental models that support understanding and recall. As a result, stressed learners may retain less than peers who are calm.Around the webI accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it acce
N+N 194 (opens the original)
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ResearchEconomic Evaluation of a Patient-Directed Music Intervention for ICU Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilatory SupportPatient-directed music was cost-effective for reducing anxiety in mechanically ventilated ICU patients.It reduced average costs by about $2,155 per patient compared with usual care.The intervention was cost-saving in 70% of 1,000 probabilistic simulations.Around the webOnce prediction shapes the choices in front of us, we lose the ability to tell the differe
N+N 193 (opens the original)
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ResearchHow People Use ChatGPTA paper analysing approximately 700M weekly users and billions of daily messages:1. Non-work usage is growing fasterNon-work messages went from 53% to 73% of all ChatGPT traffic in a year, and it's existing users shifting behaviour, not new signups skewing personal. The interesting question stops being "does this help at work" and starts being what happens when most of the value shows up at home.2. Asking is outgrowing DoingAsking is winning over Doing, on volume an
N+N 192 (opens the original)
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ResearchThe effect of nature on creativity through mental imagery97 participants did guided "mental walks" through nature and through a city, taking creativity tests before and after each. The nature walk lifted scores on convergent thinking (the Remote Associates Test). A city walk didn't move them. Head-to-head, though, nature didn't outscore the city afterward, so the nature edge shows up over time, not in direct comparison. In short: imagining nature might substitute for the real thing when
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