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.

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.

Earlier this month, New York Congressman Peter King held a hearing in Washington on the "Muslim radicalization in the U.S.," which drew fiery protests and condemnation. On Friday, another New York politician held a similar hearing in Manhattan.