Una puerta que chirría, el eco de unos pasos, el sonido de una respiración… y estamos aterrorizados, ¿por qué? Sean Street investiga en un podcast de BBC Radio 4 la psicología del miedo en relación con el sonido.

Context is important: anomalous noises, disembodied voices and sounds whose origins are mysterious – all these frighten us. David Hendy reveals that, in its early day, radio itself was alarming. Louis Niebur, author of a book on the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, reveals how in the 1950s, the advent of electronic sounds allowed programme-makers to use sounds that frightened people because they didn’t know what made the noises. Sound researcher Marcus Leadley explains how this triggers a state called schizophonia.

El programa se puede escuchar en este enlace de BBC Radio 4.