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Why your brain recognizes sounds so quickly
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Your auditory system is a high-speed survival mechanism built for panic. It takes far less time for your brain to recognize a sound than it does to process a visual image or feel a touch. This evolutionary perk was originally designed to let you hear a predator snapping a twig before it ate you. Today, it mostly just lets you instantly recognize the horrifying ping of an after-hours Slack notification.
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