Why is it always that when you zone out or don’t pay attention you can’t hear anything, but as soon as someone says your name you hear it all clearly. Why is that?
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Your brain is used, since it’s barely formed, to hearing your name and react to it. For at least 10 years, you needed to react to it’s stimulis. So obviously, hearing it is immediately recognised.
And when you hear your name, it can’t be a background sound that you don’t need to hear and can ignore. You need to react
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