Tag: Brandi Pessman

Humans have strategies for dealing with bothersome environmental noise: headphones, white noise, soundproofing materials and more. Husker research suggests that animals, too, have methods for tuning out. Biologists Eileen Hebets and Brandi Pessman published one of the first studies showing that the funnel-weaving spider can change how it receives sound when faced with local, human-generated noise.