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Close your eyes and listen. What sounds can you hear?
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Because the brain only has to translate what you hear into electrical impulses. When your eyes are open your brain is translating what you are seeing AND what you are hearing. into electrical impulses. So, when your eyes are closed your brain only focuses on what you are hearing.
When the brain translates an auditory sensory input, the next step in the process is accessing memories that are associative to what you have heard. This in turn triggers word associative memories, to provide word-based levels of understandings for what you have heard.
When you are hearing and seeing at the same time the brains attention is not focused on just one sense. You hear better when your eyes are closed because your attention is only focused on hearing and you are only accessing auditory memories and creating word associative levels of understandings for what you are hearing. When your eyes are open and you are also hearing the brain has to translate two different types of sensory inputs into electrical impulses and has to create word associative levels of understandings for what you are seeing and what you are hearing. Closing your eyes allows your attention to focus only on what you are hearing, and therefore you hear better.
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i can hear the sound of tv and fan ....both are on!