You're seriously reading the e-mail one morning, the contents of which around work and very long. Say, it is an e-mail replies from some people the umpteenth time. I was so serious, you do not realize that your teammates are almost shouted. Though the distance is only at the next table. When you finally hear, too, your companion says "Deaf, huh?'ve Called multiple times. Until the person at the other end just heard!" In the meantime, you vow to die do not feel heard nothing.
So want to check the hearing? Wait a minute. Your ears may not be problematic. The study, published several months ago in the journal Attention, Perception & psychophysics mention that the incident was caused by a condition of "inattentional deafness' or deafness due to not paying attention. According to experts, it can happen when you focus and attention is directed to a visual task that nature, so in effect you "turn off" the voices that are around. In short, when the brain is busy, you will tend not to listen to sounds around.
"So, inanttentional deafness is not because your eyes are looking where to go, but the direction in which your mind was drifting," said Nilli Lavie, professor of psychology and brain science at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.
In his research, Lavie found that when people are very focused on what he saw, could read e-mails on the computer, watching video, to chat on your BlackBerry Messenger, and unrequited SMS, the ability to hear it fall dramatically. In fact, using good headphones that will not help.
From this study concluded that hearing ability was found to decline with high brain activity. The more focused your mind on something that is in front of the eyes, the more "deaf" ears.
"Presumably, this is also related to the low 'signal' of the brain in charge of interpreting the sounds, for doing other tasks that take up all the attention," Lavie said. So, if your friend who is engrossed with his cell phone not being heard when called, only one remedy: take a cell phone, then just invite him to speak.