無心之過的“疏忽性耳聾”

和某人說話卻生生被無視？先別急著生氣傷心，也許ta只是一時注意力在別處，出現“疏忽性耳聾”罷了。

Have you ever been ignored when trying to talk to someone playing a video game? Or missed your train stop because you didn't hear the announcer when you were checking your phone?
你是否有過在某人玩游戲時試圖跟ta講話但被忽略的經歷？或者有沒有在玩手機時沒能聽到報站聲而坐過站的經歷？

Scientists refer to this experience as inattentional deafness - our natural tendency to fail to notice sounds when our mind is focused elsewhere - and it's common in our daily lives.
科學家將這種現象稱為疏忽性耳聾——當我們大腦的注意力集中在別的東西上時，我們天生傾向于忽略其它聲音的存在。在我們的日常生活中，這種現象很常見。

The researchers believe this shows that humans' sense of hearing and vision relies on the same neural resources, which are limited and may only be available to one type of task at a time.
研究人員們認為，這表明人類的聽覺和視覺依靠相同的神經資源進行處理，神經資源有限，也許一次只能完成一種任務。

（中國日報網英語點津 丁一）