Past results have shown that input fluctuations can establish a regime of high spike-time reliability [38, 39] or high sensitivity of firing frequency to input current strength [37, 40, 41], and tuning background input levels to facilitate or suppress postsynaptic activity is at least biologically plausible.
Presumably, the subjects exert greater top-down inhibitory control to overcome the adverse impact on learning in the context of listening to out-of-tune background music.
Also, like many other tracing algorithms, it needs to fine tune the background threshold and other parameters to avoid over-tracing.
This makes it a waste of time registering things that are not changing, like the sensation of clothes or a chair against your body, so the brain uses adaptation to tune this background out, allowing you to focus on what is new.
It even sounds kind of nice, and it is for anyone who happens to drop by for a few minutes, but for those of us who work there and lack the ability to tune out background music, it can be tough, and to understand why you need to understand satellite radio.
Certain proof that no one, not even Richard Ashcroft at the peak of moody credibility, can be taken seriously with the Benny Hill theme tune in the background.
We've moved on from flat caps and whippets, but the north still conjures up images of being downtrodden and impoverished; of terraced houses with the Hovis theme tune in the background.
There is an undercurrent of anxiety as adults and children go about their day, unable to tune out the background music of society at large, which seems to have turned sharply and suddenly dissonant.
The ad displaying the colorful laptops compels me because of the tune in the background (The W.A.N.D. by The Flaming Lips, if you're wondering) along with the use of blending colors on the screen.
Also, do you hear those assholes washing their hands and humming a little tune in the background?
The developing story captured me and enabled me to tune out the background noise and get on with the business of inhabiting the world I was creating".
