For this week’s Please Explain, the Leonard Lopate Show finds out how we process all the sounds we hear every day—from the hum of the heater to the wail of sirens to music to speech—and how it shapes our brains and behavior.

We kick things off with one of the longest-running experiments in the world. As Joshua Foer explains, the Pitch Drop Experiment is so slow, you can watch it for hours (check out the live cam) and not detect the slightest movement. But that doesn't mean ...

We're told from an early age that we have ears to hear with, but if you investigate a little closer, it turns out that behind our ears are our brains.  Seth Horowitz is an auditory neuroscientist at Brown University and the author of "The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind."

Seth Horowitz, neuroscientist and professor at Brown University and the author of The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind, talks about how sound affects us and how we've learned to manipulate it.