Health News from Medical News Today: Inattentional Deafness: How Our Focus Can Silence The Noisy World Around Us

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Inattentional Deafness: How Our Focus Can Silence The Noisy World Around Us 29 May 2011, 10:00 am How can someone with perfectly normal hearing become deaf to the world around them when their mind is on something else? New research funded by the Wellcome Trust suggests that focusing heavily on a task results in the experience of deafness to perfectly audible sounds. In a study published in the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, researchers at UCL (University College London) demonstrate for the first time this phenomenon, which they term 'inattentional deafness'... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.