If you work in an office, the chatter of colleagues and the phone ringing incessantly can be very distracting. However, this can be dealt with.

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. 

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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.

Some of us tend to get distracted more often than others. It is much more difficult for the introvert people to concentrate in a noisy environment, including when the music is on, than the latter. This is due to the fact that their bodies respond differently to external stimuli.

Experts found out that white noise is best at suppressing ambient noise 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 will be less temptation. Noise can be mixed with other relaxing background sounds: crashing waves, tropical rain, rustling leaves, wind.

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