Closing Your Eyes Could Muffle Your Hearing in Noisy Settings

Source: Google News - HealthIt's a common practice: to hear a faint sound better, we squeeze our eyes shut. Yet new research suggests this strategy actually backfires in noisy environments. By monitoring brain activity via EEG, researchers found that closing your eyes triggers a state of "neural criticality" that causes the brain to over-filter sound, silencing the very thing you are trying to hear. The study was published this week in the Journal of the Acoustical Society...