In Stephen Whitt’s book How Music Got Free he talked the finding of Zwicker and how, “ … Zwicker had shown that the auditory system canceled out noise following a loud click.” I think that is super interesting because it all has to do with our human auditory systems. Our auditory systems are basically so focused on the loud click that it is all we focus on. For example, the same thing can happen in a movie theater. The movie will be the loudest sound in the room, but we are so focused on the baby crying the front row that we can no longer hear the movie, but solely the baby crying. It’s kind of like selective listening in my opinion and shows how A.D.D our minds are and that then translates to our auditory system.

In class, we watched a video about why our auditory systems cancel noise out when it comes after a loud click, but I didn’t completely understand that. The young guy in the video also mentions that we cancel out sounds directly before a loud click as well. Whitt also talks about that in his book stating, “Fourth—and this is where it gets weird—Zwicker had shown that the auditory system also canceled out noise prior to a loud click.” And he is right this is freaky to me! How do my brain and my ears know that a loud click is coming????? Why do my ears just decide to stop working right before a loud click, that makes no sense! It just adds to the list of things that I don’t understand about the human body.