The next time you find yourself sighing in annoyance at your colleagues' inability to munch their crisps quietly, take solace in the fact that this could mean you are a genius.

下次再为同事嚼薯片声音太大而烦恼叹息时，你可以这样安慰自己：事实上，这意味着你可能是个天才。

A new study from Northwestern University suggests that the inability to filter out competing sensory information is a common occurence in the creatively talented.

美国西北大学（Northwestern University）的一项新研究表明，过滤不相关感官信息能力的缺失可能与创造力密切相关。

The study cites creative geniuses such as Charles Darwin, Anton Chekhov and novelist Marcel Proust, who notoriously wore ear-stoppers and lined his bedroom with cork to block out noise whilst he worked.

研究列举了生物学家查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin）和俄罗斯小说家契科夫（Anton Chekhov）等创造型天才的例子，还有工作时一直带着耳塞、用软木堵住卧室隔绝外界噪音并因此闻名的法国文学家马塞尔·普鲁斯特（Marcel Proust）。

Lead author of the study Darya Zabelina said: "The propensity to filter out 'irrelevant' sensory information....happens early and involuntarily in brain processing and may help people integrate ideas that are outside the focus of attention, leading to creativity in the real world."

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