NEW INC Y12 Creative Science: <i>I Hear You Better With Noise</i>

RationaleI Hear You Better With Noise examines how affect, emotion, and care can emerge from the interaction of sound, tactile vibration, and visual presence without reliance on linguistic meaning.The project is grounded in neuroscientific research showing that sound and vibration are combined by the nervous system at stages of perception that precede conscious attention, interpretation, or semantic understanding.(Kayser et al. 2005;Huey et al. 2025) Neuroscience research on multisensory processing demonstrates that vibration transmitted through the body is not supplementary to hearing.Tactile vibration activates auditory pathways and enhances auditory responses, particularly when stimuli are temporally coincident and individually subtle.This phenomenon, described by the principle of inverse effectiveness, suggests that weak or ambiguous signals can produce disproportionately strong affective responses when combined (Holmes 2009).In this context, multisensory experience operates as oscillatory energy capable of entraining neural rhythms.