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The phenomenon you experience is known as inattentional deafness or auditory inattention.
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Inattentional deafness or auditory inattention.
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It occurs when our attention is focused on one task or stimulus such as singing along to the radio or we become less aware of attentive to others to mine and environment even significant ones like a song change.
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There are several factors that contribute to the difficulty in detecting the song change.
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So factors that contribute difficulty in detecting the song change.
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First is divided attention.
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So when driving our attention is primarily focused on the road and ensuring our safety.
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Singing along to the radio can divide our attention further making it challenging to process or notice changes in the auditory environment.
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Second is cognitive load.
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Cognitive load.
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So singing along to a song requires mental and cognitive processing.
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Our brain allocates cognitive resources to maintain the lyrics, melody and rhythm reducing the available capacity for processing other stimuli such as changes in the song playing on the radio...