Why do we typically react to sound faster than we react to visuals?
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Sound is much simpler than sight.
To us, pretty much all loud sounds are the same thing *BOOM* “ah unknown danger”
That’s why all loud sounds make people flinch/jump/duck in similar ways, you’re just reacting to the sound.
Visual cues though are different it takes a bit for your brain to process what it is seeing, is it seeing a bird flying by you? A ball flying away form you? A ball that is going to miss you to the side? A ball that is just falling straight down? A ball that is going to go over your head? Or is it a ball that is going right at your face? *smack*.
Visual cues are more complex, so take more time to process and react to, auditory cues are more simple, loud sound = danger = flinch/jump/whatever.
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