Humans and animals love the same sounds…
Quirks and Quarks

Humans and animals love the same sounds…

B2Upper-intermediateJune 5, 202654 min
  • Interview
  • Science

150 years ago, Charles Darwin noticed that birds and humans were both drawn to bright plumage and elaborate display. He called this interspecies esthetic appreciation a “shared taste for the beautiful.” Now, in a recent study, an interdisciplinary team of scientists built an online game exploring the mating calls of 16 different species and discovered, to their surprise, that humans and animals agree on which sounds are more attractive. PLUS: How the brain can learn to truly multitaskFrom the archives: The Russian space mirror that flashed across Canadian skiesThe Matrix is real: bird...

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Hi, I'm Bob McDonald. Welcome to Quarks and Quarks. On this week's show, our brains can in fact learn to multitask. The new thing in our study is that we show no actually your brain can

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