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Auditory Exclusion

By Sheryl Ankrom, About.com

Updated: July 17, 2008

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Definition:

Auditory Exclusion involves a loss of hearing that occurs during confrontation with danger. It is a sort of filtering out of unimportant external noise so that focus is maintained on the business at hand -- survival.

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