P05 : Can You Hear It? The Correlations Between ADHD and Audio Pareidolia
| Students | Max Perry
Adesh Suchit |
| School | HDSB - W. H. Morden Public School - Oakville |
| Level | Junior 7/8 - Grade 8 |
| Group | Group 4 - Health Sciences III |
| Abstract | Have you ever thought you heard someone call your name, when they didn’t at all? Or seen what looked like a human face in the crooked bark of a tree? These are both examples of pareidolia, an interesting psychological phenomenon in which meaningful messages are perceived in the midst of random data. The purpose of this experiment is to test the relationships between the audio aspect of pareidolia and the common psychological disorder, ADHD, in which common traits are restlessness and a low level of focus. The hypothesis was that there would be a direct relationship between ADHD and audio pareidolia. This experiment is meant to seek out real life applications of audio pareidolia, and to see how it affects people with ADHD. It was found that, contradicting the hypothesis, that there was in fact an inverse relationship between ADHD and audio pareidolia. |