Get Up And Do Something: The 10 Most Annoying Sounds and Why They Bother Us

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The 10 Most Annoying Sounds and Why They Bother Us Oct 16th 2012, 11:53 The sound of nails on a chalkboard or screams may send shivers down the spine for a good reason. A new study shows annoying sounds trigger a highly emotional response in the brain. Researchers found the part of the brain that regulates emotions, the amygdala, appears to take over the hearing part of the brain when people hear an extremely annoying sound. "It appears there is something very primitive kicking in," says researcher Sukhbinder Kumar of the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. "It's a possible distress signal from the amygdala to the auditory cortex."

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