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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

One sided conversations are EXTRA distracting...



Just about anywhere you go these days - you’re likely to hear one side of a conversation from someone on a cell phone...  

Researchers at Cornell University say those half-conversations are MUCH more distracting than other noises and talk. That’s because our brains have an innate ability to ignore things that are predictable. When we hear regular chit-chat, there’s not much guessing about the subject matter. One sided conversations throw our brain a bit of a curve-ball. It can’t help but tune in a bit more in an attempt to fill in the blanks.

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