I don't know about other people, but I seem to be able to focus more with visual and auditory noise. Something to do with "stochastic resonance"? A quick searc

I don't know about other people, but I seem to be able to focus more with visual and auditory noise. Something to do with "stochastic resonance"? A quick search yields: > Beneficial effects of noise on higher cognition have recently attracted attention. Hypothesizing an involvement of the mesolimbic dopamine system and its functional interactions with cortical areas, the current study aimed to demonstrate a facilitation of dopamine-dependent attentional and mnemonic functions by externally applying white noise in five behavioral experiments. > ..These results suggest that white noise has no general effect on cognitive functions. Differential effects of white noise in cognitive and perceptual tasks https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4630540/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4630540/ > Perceptual decision-making relies on the gradual accumulation of noisy sensory evidence. It is often assumed that such decisions are degraded by adding noise to a stimulus, or to the neural systems involved in the decision making process itself. But it has been suggested that adding an optimal amount of noise can, under appropriate conditions, enhance the quality of subthreshold signals in nonlinear systems, a phenomenon known as stochastic resonance. Stochastic resonance enhances the rate of evidence accumulation during combined brain stimulation and perceptual decision-making https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6066257/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6066257/