In the movie, Krasinski and real-life wife Emily Blunt play a couple with two small children (and one on the way) trying to survive in absolute silence after their world is invaded by blind, sound-hunting monsters.
Modulation of the sensory N100 has indeed been obtained with external cues in the blind (sound presented in the left or right auditory space [7]).
Bullet-proof front doors and steel security blinds sound like the must-have accessories for a high street bank rather than features of a swanky cliff-top villa overlooking an enticing sandy beach in Portugal's Algarve region.
Intuition (of syntheses or unities) without analysis is mute, but analysis without intuition is inarticulate as well as blind: the sounds it utters cannot be distinguished from noise.
In "I'd Rather Go Blind," she sounded tearful as she sang about seeing her man with another woman, then continued, "I was thinking about your sweet kiss and your yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah," pausing to remind the crowd, "Y'all know what I'm talking about".
This sound-absorbing blind works because sound is absorbed extremely well if there's a rear air layer, 50-200 mm thick, between the blind slats and a wall, when the blind is attached in the usual way.
The making of the song, as recorded in New York City by Franklin (reportedly with her two sisters on backing vocals) and members of the famous Muscle Shoals "Swampers," is in itself a great story: in the midst of the ongoing American Civil Rights Movement, black and white musicians worked together to create a color-blind soulful sound.
Rauschecker says the finding could spark research on equipment that helps blind people use sounds to "see" their environment, such as speakers that would bounce sound off of nearby objects, giving the blind a clearer sound picture of their surroundings.
Nonetheless, writes Paola Caridi, in this intimate and hard-hitting portrayal of the city, it is possible to close one's eyes and, "like the blind listening to sounds," discern the conflict and plurality of belonging that mark out the city's secular character.
In the blind darkness, the sound of the approaching destruction roared ever louder.
