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The study tested whether a single intravenous dose of ketamine given right after reactivating alcohol-related memories could weaken those memories and reduce harmful drinking. People who had their drinking memories reactivated and then received ketamine showed larger drops in urge to drink, enjoyment of beer, cue reactivity, and in drinking…
The paper reports five big online studies that collected 235,440 human ratings to test how the sound quality (timbre) of tones affects which note combinations people find pleasant (consonant). The authors show that changing the spectrum of tones can shift listeners’ consonance preferences, sometimes so much that people prefer inharmonic…
