Top 5 Most Addictive Sounds

Sound has been known to take an experience to the next level--horror movies are never scary with no sound and parties are never fun with no music. It's known to evoke emotion and memories, making them feel so much more vivid.

There's no doubt about it, sound is immensely powerful. Buyology Inc. and Elias Arts, a sound identity company in New York, wired up 50 volunteers and measured their galvanic, pupil, and brainwave responses to sounds using the latest neuroscience-based research methods. It resulted in a very surprising discovery. Many sounds related to modern technology made the top most addicting sounds. The list will surprise you.

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There's no doubt about it, sound is immensely powerful. And yet 83% of all the advertising communication we're exposed to daily (bearing in mind that we will see two million TV commercials in a single lifetime) focuses, almost exclusively on the sense of sight. That leaves just 17% for the remaining four sense. Think about how much we rely on sound. It confirms a connection when dialing or texting on cell phones and alerts us to emergencies. When the sound was removed from slot machines in Las Vegas, revenue fell by 24%. Experiments undertaken in restaurants show that when slow music (slower than the rhythm of a heartbeat) is played, we eat slower--and we eat more!

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There are many ways to do neuroscience-based tests. Some of the famous ones are Electroencephalography (EEG), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), and Magnetoencephalography (MEG). Maybe you can look up how they work.

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