The Aztecs recognized something profound: sound can be a powerful emotional ... the psychoacoustic and archeoacoustic effects of Aztec skull whistles. Researchers used two original skull whistles ...

Its fear-splitting screech reverberates throughout space and time. Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited with emitting the ...

Temple for Aztec God Known as Flayed Lord Found To test the effect of the death whistle on listeners, the researchers had 70 subjects rate a sample of 2,500 sounds. From that data, the team found ...

“The sound that the death whistle makes innately strikes fear into ... bansheelike shriek resembling a sound effect from a haunted house attraction. (We dare you not to jump!) ...

The Aztec skull whistle produces a shrill, screaming sound. A study shows that these whistles have a disturbing effect on the human brain. The Aztecs may have deliberately used this effect in ...

The whistle sound is most similar to natural sounds and electronic music effects, and least similar to other instruments like Mexican flutes. Animal, human, and synthetic sounds fall somewhere in ...

modern studies show that basic affective responses to terrifying sounds are universal in humans. This suggests that the effect of the Aztec death whistles on people at that time would have been ...

The culprit was none other than the film's legendary composer John Barry, who suggested the slide whistle's inclusion, and even though producer Albert R. Broccoli felt the sound effect ...

“The calls of the frogs remind us strongly of iconic futuristic sound effects from the franchise ... differ both in pitch and in timing of the whistles.” The DNA sequencing also showed ...