The most annoying sound man - a nagging

A joint study by psychologists at the University of New York and the University of Clarke showed that whining more than any other sound, prevents us from concentrating.

Under the terms of the experiment, the volunteers listened to one of the offered sounds and tried to correctly solve an arithmetic problem. In particular, the scientists tested irritant such sounds as the mother syusyukane (foreign language), engine noise, crying baby, talk. Some of the volunteers performed the task in absolute silence.

Interestingly, the used record whining adult actor, since children can not long whining for no reason. Previously, the researchers found that both adults and children whining perceived by people with the same rejection.

As expected, the least mistakes made by those who do not interfere with other sounds. But in the first place was whining that "surpassed" even the noise from the engine.

Why is this happening, tried to explain the study's author Rosemary Chang. According to her, a function similar to the function siren whining, which is sure to attract our attention and forces to respond so quickly to stop the annoying sound.

Source: www.scienceblog.ru

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