{"id":151221,"date":"2022-11-27T01:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T07:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/groundbreaking-new-technology-allows-people-to-listen-to-music-through-touch"},"modified":"2022-11-27T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T07:22:21","slug":"groundbreaking-new-technology-allows-people-to-listen-to-music-through-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/groundbreaking-new-technology-allows-people-to-listen-to-music-through-touch","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking New Technology Allows People To Listen to Music Through Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pc1JCMozsDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A ground-breaking prototype developed by experts from the Department of Electronics at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-malaga\/>University of Malaga<\/a> and members of the R&amp;D group \u201cElectronics for Instrumentation and Systems,\u201d will allow those with hearing loss to listen to music through the sense of touch.<\/p>\n<p>It consists of an audio-tactile algorithm that transforms monophonic music into tangible stimuli based on vibration utilizing \u201ctactile illusions.\u201d According to the researchers, \u201cIt\u2019s like \u2018hacking\u2019 the nervous system to receive a different response to the real stimulus sent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we want to achieve in the long term is for people who do not hear to be able to \u2018listen\u2019 to music\u201d, assures researcher Paul Remache, the main author of this paper, who insists on the power of music to influence mood, as well as its possibilities as a therapy for mental disorders and treatment of pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ground-breaking prototype developed by experts from the Department of Electronics at the University of Malaga and members of the R&amp;D group \u201cElectronics for Instrumentation and Systems,\u201d will allow those with hearing loss to listen to music through the sense of touch. It consists of an audio-tactile algorithm that transforms monophonic music into tangible stimuli [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}