A rather effective and thorough takedown of the habit of information grazing--something which I'm certainly guilty of myself. Something to stew about.

" ... As you listen to these four examples, you may find that you get better at understanding the sine-wave speech first time around. This is an example of perceptual learning. Having heard several examples of sine-wave speech, your perceptual system has tuned into this form of distortion, so as to be able to perceive new sine-wave speech sentences more clearly ... "