How our brain makes sense of a noisy world, with Nina Kraus, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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How Does Noise Pollution Affect Other Animals?
The author argues that exposure to unwanted noise harms not only people's ears, but their brains. "There is very little awareness of the really terrible impact that our noisy world can have on our brain," he says. We're all under this low level stress because of the sounds that we're hearing and also sounds distract us.
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