Clips of thin, whistling tones are going viral on social media, startling listeners who suddenly “hear” hidden words. The sound itself doesn’t change; once listeners know the sentence, their brains impose meaning, transforming whistles into intelligible speech. Known as sine-wave speech (SWS), the phenomenon shows how perception, expectation, and auditory priming shape what we hear, not secret messages or conspiracies.
This shouldn’t be real: Paralysed patients play video games just by thinking after Neuralink transplant
Paralysed individuals are now playing video games using only their thoughts, thanks to Neuralink’s brain-computer interface. This groundbreaking technology, implanted in patients with severe paralysis, translates neural signals into digital…
