{"id":18401,"date":"2015-12-16T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/research\/researchers-discover-the-cause-behind-inattentional-deafness\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:03:09","slug":"researchers-discover-the-cause-behind-inattentional-deafness","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/researchers-discover-the-cause-behind-inattentional-deafness","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover the cause behind &#8216;inattentional deafness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Although reseatchers have known about the phenomenon of &#8216;inattentional deafness,&#8217; the exact reasons behind it were not known. A team of researchers from University College London conducted a study on how concentrating on a visual task renders people temporarily deaf to the surrounding sounds. They selected a group of subjects who were exposed to a demanding visual task. Simultaneously, the subjects were also exposed to sounds that were clearly audible. However, the subjects were not able to hear them. Their\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">brain activity, which was observed\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">in real-time using MEG (magnetoencephalography), indicated that &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">people were not only ignoring or filtering out the sounds, they were not actually hearing them in the first place,&#8221; according to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">study co-author Dr Maria Chait (UCL Ear Institute). This indicates that the sensory perception of the brain reduces under the load of visual stimuli. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/12\/151208184335.htm\"><em>Science Daily<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[2874],"class_list":["post-18401","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-psychology-and-neuroscience"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Researchers discover the cause behind &#039;inattentional deafness&#039; | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Although reseatchers have known about the phenomenon of &#039;inattentional deafness,&#039; the exact reasons behind it were not known. 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