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This failure, termed inattentional deafness, is often attributed to high workload in the visual modality, which reduces one\u2019s capacity for information processing. Besides this, our capacity for processing auditory information could also be selectively diminished if there is no obvious task relevance in the auditory channel. This could be another contributing factor given the rarity of auditory warnings. <\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Method<\/jats:title><jats:p> Forty-eight participants performed a visuomotor tracking task while auditory stimuli were presented: a frequent pure tone, an infrequent pure tone, and infrequent environmental sounds. Participants were required either to respond to the presentation of the infrequent pure tone (auditory task-relevant) or not (auditory task-irrelevant). We recorded and compared the event-related potentials (ERPs) that were generated by environmental sounds, which were always task-irrelevant for both groups. These ERPs served as an index for our participants\u2019 awareness of the task-irrelevant auditory scene. <\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p> Manipulation of auditory task relevance influenced the brain\u2019s response to task-irrelevant environmental sounds. 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