Higher-order sonification of the human brain
Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Emi-Pauline Kitaura, Niels Janssen, Antonella Maselli, Ernesto Pereda, Aurelio Carnero Rosell · 2025
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Description
Francisco-Shu Kitaura and five co-authors turn brain scans into sound, in a 2025 study, so that data can be heard as well as seen. Sonification, the display of data as sound, can spread science more widely and let visually impaired analysts work with data. Most past sonification stuck to one-dimensional data, since richer sets lack practical sound tools.
The team work with 3D brain scans and measure how points in the brain relate, in pairs and in triples, using the power spectrum and bispectrum. Those triple links capture finer patterns that pair links miss. They map one such pattern into audio for five age groups, drawn from the OASIS-3 dataset with 864 imaging sessions. Turning the sound back into data lost very little. The authors frame the clips as demonstrations, not proof, and call for tests of how well listeners can use them.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Emi-Pauline Kitaura, Niels Janssen, Antonella Maselli, Ernesto Pereda, Aurelio Carnero Rosell |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |