Just the thought of nails raking across a chalkboard is enough to send shivers down many people’s spines — but the reasoning behind this reaction has remained a mystery for decades. Scientists ...

During the study, research participants were made to hear unpleasant as well as pleasant sounds, for instance the sound of nails on a chalkboard or a fork scraping a plate.

Nails on a chalkboard? Styrofoam squeaks? Turns out, there's a science behind why certain sounds are so irritating to humans, and the implications are way weirder than you'd expect.

What we want to know, science, is why a person would ever actually want to scrape their nails on the chalkboard. Who was the patient zero of this grand idea? Because, it’s terrible!

Even imagining the sound of a person's fingernails scraping down a chalkboard is horrible. Now, new research helps suggest why the noise is such a special kind of awful.

The reason we cringe at the sound of scratching on a chalkboard is because the sound triggers an uptick in communication between a part of the brain involved in hearing and a part involved in ...

Each of the eight sounds was a modified version of the sound of nails on a chalkboard—the scientists either removed frequencies or modified tones and pitches in each of the stimuli.

Some sounds are especially disturbing – like the sound of a person's fingernails scraping down a chalkboard. Now researchers know why. The frequency of the screechy, scratchy sound ranges ...

If the mere thought of fingernails scraping along a blackboard makes you cringe, blame your amygdala. Scientists have discovered that this primitive almond-shaped brain region is behind our ...

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.