Selective remembrance in a dense sonic environment; perceptive or memory deletion of a sound or a group of sound in an audible whole. The effect is experience by everyone on a daily basis and allows us to forget information efficiently in order to retrieve from memory useful conversations, actions, etc…
Characteristics:
- The identification of the whole audible world can make the post perceptual filtering process more effective.
- Visual magnetisation can allow a better focus and makes the later perceptual and memory filtering easier.
Related effects: Cocktail party effect
Related inductor effect: Dense effects
Complementary effect: Habituation
(Augoyard, 2006)