Information Filtering

I was told a very interesting experiment. Babies were shown two different pictures of monkeys, in which the differences are not detectable by naked eyes. The 6-month old could tell the difference but not the 1 year old. We learn to ignore the unimportant information and concentrate on the survival-related ones. In this case, human faces are far more important to babies than monkey faces.

We only comprehand, understand, remember whatever we feel important. No wonder communication is difficult before we can synchronise our emotion with our audience.