On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:24 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> tachyon_1@email.com wrote:
> however, if your wife calls your name, you'll likely hear it because 
> your brain is trained to recognize it and filters it from the noise.
> 
> Some people's filters must be broken, they appear to work exactly 
> opposite to your example.  :-)

Hehe. I have however been quite amazed by HOW GOOD the human brain is at
filtering out noise and singling out a single sound/voice. You can be in
an extremely noisey environment and still "pick out" what you want to
hear.

I've tried it myself listening to music, trying to "listen" to only one
instrument and ignoring the rest. Concentrating enough I can single out
whatever instrument I want and hum to just that instrument. It doesn't
even have to be anywhere near the loudest instrument either. Quite neat.

TTYL



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