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28th Oct 2015

Hate the sound of people chewing? Well, you might actually be a genius

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Colm Boohig

You read right, pal.

It’s officially called misophonia, i.e. the hatred of sound, and if you have it then you may actually be a creative genius.

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The good folks at Newsy Science have created a video explaining the correlation between an aversion to loud chewing and exceptional innovation.

Northwestern University’s study determines that “higher divergent thinking scores were linked with more selective sensory gating”.

If, like us, you want to find out what that actually means then watch this video, because it also explains what to do about the problem.