Chalk Scratching

Scientists have looked into the why for years and this week, scientists presented another theory at the Acoustical Society of America meeting. Fingernails on a chalkboard.

The mere thought of fingernails scratching a chalkboard can be enough to set some people on edge. Now, a new study may help explain why.

And, interestingly, even though nails-on-a-chalkboard is often cited as one of the worst sounds around, in one study researchers found that several other sounds are even worse. Like the sound of someone vomiting, babies crying, a Tasmanian devil call, and a soap opera argument I have no idea all ranked worse than the classic shiver-inducing

The two sounds rated as the most unpleasant, they said, were fingernails scratching on a chalkboard and a piece of chalk running against slate.

Why do certain sounds like nails on a chalkboard feel so awful? Research in multisensory integration suggests it's more than just the sound waves themselves.

I am curious as to what current research shows regarding why scraping noises such as fingernails on a chalkboard, a knifefork scraping against a plate, metal grinding against metal or stone etc are so intolerable to humans. In doing some initial research for this I read the wikipedia article on Sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard there's a wikipedia article on everything! but I am

Scraping a chalkboard also known as a blackboard with one's fingernails produces a sound and feeling which most people find extremely irritating. The basis of the innate reaction to the sound has been studied in the field of psychoacoustics the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its physiological effects.

Merely imagining the sound of nails screeching across a chalkboard is enough to make some people shudder. There aren't many other ear-piercing sounds that live up to the notoriety of nails on a chalkboard. So what is it about this specific noise that makes it so intolerable? It turns out its effects are both psychological and physiological, and humans are actually predisposed to despise the

The sound of nails scratching the chalkboard can be very irritating to some people but when I recorded this it felt pretty good. Leave a comment or like if y

You know that weird, shivery, uncomfortable feeling you get when you hear the screech of nails on a chalkboard? Maybe you get it from other things, too On one Reddit thread, users described experiencing the same sensation after licking a wooden Popsicle stick, or in response to the sound of two pieces of Styrofoam rubbing together for me, it's the feeling of flour on my hands psychologist