Banking on predictability, the mind increases efficiency

Monday, November 22, 2010 - 16:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Listeners can become effectively deaf to sounds that do not conform to their brains' expectations. Like musical compression saves space on your mp3 player, the human brain has ways of recoding sounds to save precious processing power.

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