 手機幻聽 ringxiety
[ 2009-06-23 16:19 ]
辦公室里，鍵盤敲擊聲和手機鈴聲此起彼伏。明明不是自己電話響，卻還是忍不住要拿出手機來看一眼。過了一會兒，似乎感覺到放手機的地方在振動，趕緊掏兜看手機，哦，原來手機并沒有響動。你是不是也有過這樣的經(jīng)歷？告訴你吧，這種情況就是我們常說的“手機幻聽”，在英文里叫ringxiety。
Ringxiety is a portmanteau neologism formed from the words "ringtone" and "anxiety." Ringxiety is described as the sensation and the false belief that one can hear his or her mobile phone ringing or feel it vibrating, when in fact the telephone is not doing so.
Ringxiety（手機幻聽）是由ringtone（手機鈴聲）和anxiety（焦慮）兩個詞組合而成的一個詞，指在手機沒有響動的情況下，人們聽到手機響或者感到其振動的錯覺。
Other terms for this concept include phantom ring effect and fauxcellarm. The reasoning for this relates partially to the idea that humans are particularly sensitive to auditory tones between 1,000 and 6,000 hertz, and basic mobile phone ringers often fall within this range. False vibrations are less well understood, however, and could have psychological or neurological sources.
其他可以用來指代“手機幻聽”的說法還有phantom ring effect和fauxcellarm。導(dǎo)致這一現(xiàn)象的部分原因可能是人類對1000到6000赫茲的聲音頻率比較敏感，而手機鈴聲大都在這一頻率范圍內(nèi)。錯覺手機振動的反應(yīng)就不太好解釋了，可能有心理或神經(jīng)方面的原因。
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