Sunday, March 18, 2012

A new study says that sound phone affects our brains

Next time you hear the dial tone of a phone nearby, think that you can affect the brain. A new study claims that ringtones distract us, reducing our ability to remember information and to focus until the phone stops ringing.
To monitor the effects they have on our ringing, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, conducted a study was divided into two stages.
To begin, first test was conducted on a group of students who were asked to quickly identify a set of objects that appeared for a moment on a computer monitor. Meanwhile, a phone call several times. Sometimes his tone was a standard call, sometimes, to hear a song known. Every time the phone rings, scientists have observed that reaction rate of students decrease. However, when he heard a standard tone, volunteers regained their attention more quickly than when the phone was a known song.

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