{"id":2133,"date":"2012-11-09T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2012-11-09T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:48:04","slug":"the-most-annoying-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"The Most Annoying Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Journal of Neuroscience published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/32\/41\/14184.abstract\">paper<\/a> describing the top 10 most annoying sounds, according to a group of 16 people undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning of their brains when exposed to 74 different sounds. The results were:<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press.office\/assets\/audio\/knife_bottle.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Knife on a bottle<br \/>\n<\/a>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press.office\/assets\/audio\/fork_glass.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Fork on a glass<br \/>\n<\/a>3.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press.office\/assets\/audio\/blackboard_chalk.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Chalk on a blackboard<br \/>\n<\/a>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press.office\/assets\/audio\/ruler_bottle.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Ruler on a bottle<br \/>\n<\/a>5.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press.office\/assets\/audio\/blackboard_nails.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Nails on a blackboard<\/a><br \/>\n6. Female scream<br \/>\n7. Anglegrinder (a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angle_grinder\" target=\"_blank\">power tool<\/a>)<br \/>\n8. Squealing brakes on a bicycle<br \/>\n9. Baby crying<br \/>\n10. Electric drill<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/science\/2012\/10\/what-is-the-most-annoying-sound-in-the-world\/\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journal of Neuroscience published a paper describing the top 10 most annoying sounds, according to a group of 16 people undergoing functional magnetic resonance <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"entry-more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2133\" class=\"entry-more-link entry-more-link-excerpt btn btn-primary\"><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-psychoacoustics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}