A team of scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) are taking on a decades-old mystery concerning the human brain and how it processes utterances that aren’t linguistic in nature.

Using the mouth, lips, tongue and voice to generate sounds that one might never expect to come from the human body is the specialty of the artists known as beatboxers. Now scientists have used ...

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Beatboxers can create the sound of snare drums, basslines, high hats and other beats all at once. And while it’s entertaining to listen to, what’s the science behind those beats? Scientists scanned ...

Which, do you imagine, is harder on the human voice: [rock singer sound], or [soprano sound]—or this [beatboxing sample]? Beatboxing, as musician Tom Thum was doing in that last example, uses the ...

According to new research by a voice expert, beatboxing may actually be gentler on injury-prone vocal cords. You might think that beatboxing, with its harsh, high-energy percussive sounds, would be ...