In Reply to: Hmmmmm… posted by David Aiken on April 8, 2011 at 03:03:15:
I rather suspect that there IS a particular type of brain activity that is triggered by distortion, and that it is related to cognitive dissonance and stress/anxiety reactions. You're hearing something different than what you think you're "supposed" to be hearing, and this causes your brain to work harder to decipher the information and make it intelligible. Same as trying to look at scenery through a dirty window. This isn't something you're doing deliberately, it's all on the reflex level.
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- Good question - caspian@peak.org 18:58:24 04/08/11 (0)