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Published online 18 May 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010524-2
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Loud voices music to our ears
We become more musical when we shout over a din.
To be heard over background noise we become more musical. Against a din, the pitches of westerners' words and sentences tend to the predominant tones of western music, Martin Braun of the organization Neuroscience of Music in Klässbol, Sweden has found1.
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