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2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
If you work in an office, the chatter of colleagues and the incessant ringing of the phone can be very distracting. However, this can be dealt with.
In the Office noise and employee concentration: identifying causes of disruption and potential improvements survey of 88 office workers, 99% of those surveyed admitted that loud noises interfere with their concentration. For science, this is no longer a discovery.
Why are we distracted
The areas of the brain that process sound also control the mental and physiological processes necessary for concentration and creativity. Extraneous sounds distract us most often because they compete for recognition in the brain with other signals. The auricle, which converts sound waves into nerve signals, receives information from the brain itself. For example, about the origin of sound, the need to react to it and the level of its irritability.
Studies on The cognitive determinants of behavioral distraction by deviant auditory stimuli: a review show that sound annoys us when its volume is equal to or higher than that of a normal conversation. If the speaker nearby is working on a different team, he will distract us even more. Only foreign speech does not affect our performance: experimental results How much does language proficiency by non-native listeners influence speech audiometric tests in noise? demonstrate that speech in a foreign language begins to be perceived only when it significantly overlaps the general sound level.
Some of us tend to be distracted more often than others. Analysis of Music is as distracting as noise: the differential distraction of background music and noise on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts of productivity among 38 introverts and 38 extroverts showed that it is much more difficult for the former to concentrate in a noisy environment, including when the music is on. than the second. This is due to the fact that their bodies respond differently to external stimuli.
How to get rid of noise
In 2016, experts found out The Sound of Creativity: Correlating Brainwave & Psychometric Changes with Workplace Acoustics that white noise is the best at suppressing ambient sounds in the office. It is he who allows you to concentrate on work and is associated by workers with the productive performance of creative tasks. At the same time, white noise slightly reduces speech recognition and does not increase cognitive abilities.
There are tons of white noise sites on the internet. Among the most popular are Noisli.com, Mynoise.net and Tmsoft.com. It is best to listen to it through a browser, rather than download the application to your smartphone: this way there will be less temptations. Noise can be mixed with other relaxing background sounds: crashing waves, tropical rain, rustling leaves, wind.
If you decide to buy a stationary generator, first convince your colleagues of the need for it.
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