Connecting the Dots

Found a cool little article today, saying that a physically interrupted sound is heard as continuing through background noise; thus when we try to listen to conversation in a noisy room, the brain fills in the gaps between interrupted sound fragments to create what we perceive as a continuous soundthat our brain fills in the gaps with sounds.We will hear sound when there is not actually any sound present. This reminded me of an old optical illusion:


Same thing here you see a white triangle when in fact there is no triangle at all our Brains just naturally like to fill in the gaps.

This constructive ability of the brain is pretty awesome, it can take an incomplete picture or sound and make it complete. I think alot of people don't realize how well the brain does this not only in vision and hearing but also in thought. Have you ever been describing something to someone and thought it was perfectly clear but the person had no idea what you were talking about or vice versa? It is important not to skip over important points because it is so ingrained that your brain 'fills in the gaps', the problem being that the person you are talking to doesn't have that luxury. Just something to pay attention to. You can't unlearn something so you can become better at explaining it