The sound of a word like “knife” or “truck” seems totally arbitrary–it’s just a random sound we’ve assigned to a thing, right? But for several decades, scientists have found good evidence that the ...

Nick and Sally copy a sound pattern of buzzes and bells, to unlock a door. When a locked door plays a series of sounds, Nick and Sally try to repeat the sounds, to get the door to unlock. It works!

This article originally appeared in Issue 7 of Crawdaddy in December, 1966. A major source of innovation in any art is external influences, influences derived from widespread, eclectic origins outside ...

David Sidhu receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Penny Pexman ...