How Does White Noise Affect Concentration?

There's a deviance effect, and arguably this is an evolutionary auditory distraction phenomena that we share with lots of other hearing species. When one sound item differs from all the others, it captures our attention. White noise would be another example of a sound that has less acoustical variation. As I said, I suffer a little tinnitus so masking noise kind of helps. So having music from when I've read music therapy or playing music is helpful for people with tinnitus. And I wrote an article about the film A Quiet Place with John Krasinski and Emily Blunt where they've got very good human hearing but shouldn't kill everyone because they're aliens who have landed