Study: Brain learns to block out disturbing stimuli over time
The human brain can learn through experience to filter out disruptive and distracting stimuli, such as a bright billboard at the roadside or a flashing banner on the internet. Researchers from the University of Leipzig and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have discovered, using electroencephalography (EEG), that early visual processing patterns in humans change through repeated experience. Often, a distracting factor is more easily ignored after… Read more »
