Excerpt from The Overcoming of Distraction and Other Resistances, Vol. 24: Archives of Psychology, No; 35, February, 1916<br><br>Much of the work that has been done on this line has been in connection with the problem of attention. Some work has been done with rhythmical sounds, but as we have endeavored to exclude rhythm we are not directly concerned with this. Since noises have been used ih efforts to measure attention by the distraction method, any review of the work on the effect of noise will take us into the literature on the measurement of attention, and hence will be more or less involved in theoretical problems. As a complete history of this problem may be found elsewhere,7 we will limit our account to the work that bears directly on our problem, that of noise or sound disturbance.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.