How does background noise affect creativity? It’s also my preferred tone out of all three to work with. The end result is a much deeper sound, which to me sounds similar to water gently flowing in a river or waves on a beach. This tone is designed much more for humans by actually removing a larger proportion of high frequencies alltogether. In fact, the word noise is a derivative of the latin word for nausea, so it makes sense that noise is described as unpleasant. Thereby, steady background noises like this can help prevent you getting distracted by making all the other noises less noticeable. This is turn will help mask out other sounds in the background, which otherwise would be instantly heard if there was silence and alert and distract your brain. In fact, if it recognises a pattern or notices that its sensory input isn’t changing, it will actually stop processing the information it is receiving and start working off memories.Ī white noise the background will quickly become filtered out by the brain (as long as it is not painful), like you quickly forget that an air conditioner is making noise until someone mentions it. Your brain is fortunately so advanced that it can recognise patterns to see if it is worth its effort processing this new information. This is where background noise like white noise can come in. In fact, a lot has been written in recent years about how open plan offices are showing to be bad for productivity because people simply can’t prevent distractions and focus on their work. This is a change in the surroundings and needs my attention NOW!
#DARK NOISE BENEFITS UPDATE#
This is why it is so easy to become distracted while working on a creative project.Įvery new alert you get, whether it is an email notification, facebook update or SMS message buzz in your pocket tells the brain: Problematically, this part of the brain is very easily distracted when it notices something change, especially visually or a noise, as the brain needs to quickly assess whether it could be a threat.
What is important to remember here is that the most ancient parts of the brain evolved to keep us alive and safe, and therefore can override the more advanced areas, such as when you are concentrating on something. However, behind the advanced parts of the human brain (the neocortex) which control our conscious thought, are the more ancient part of the brain which control basic functions, such as the limbic system (memory, learning, emotions) and the oldest part like the “reptilian brain”, the basal ganglia (motivation, eye movement).
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