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Fingernails on a Blackboard

If you are born tone deaf and someone sings out of tune, do you feel discomfort? You certainly do. Your brain senses discomforting sound whether your conscious self can sense it or not.  You will probably leave the room first if you are a music professional. fingernails on a chalkboard sound gives the shivers ear-piercing noise visceral reaction ear-splitting noise crying baby human scream sounds tied to survival rescue a crying infant shrill sounds study groups expressed the changes in skin conductivity chalkboard screeches sound was incredibly annoying fingernail-chalkboard sound triggers uptick in communication region brain involved in hearing another region brain involved in emotions nails on a chalkboard whine of power tools according to their pleasantness researchers functional magnetic resonance imaging fmri how participants brains responded to the sounds when the participants heard an unpleasant sound negative emotions it appears there is s...