The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
In the auditory system, when there's ongoing sound, your auditory system hears that, even if you're not paying attention to it, if you're paying attention to something else, it's still registers. Those little hair cells, as they're called in your inner ear are fluttering, the eardrum is beating and in concert to that sound frequency. And there's a brainstem mechanism that generates alertness and a kind of vigilant.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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In our visual system, that light entering the eyes triggers the activation of those melanopsin cells, which triggers activation of the hypothalamus, a particular area of the hypothalamus, which generates alertness, generates the release, even of cortisol, a stress hormone. In the auditory system, when there's ongoing sound, your auditory system hears that, even if you're not paying