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Oct 8, 2023 · This is a prime example of a phenomenon called “the cocktail party effect”. Understanding speech in the presence of background conversation is a challenge for all of us, but especially children and older adults. In this blog post, we discuss what the cocktail party effect is, and some of the cognitive mechanisms involved.
Nov 1, 2023 · What is the Cocktail Party Effect? This human ability to understand a conversation, even with many distracting sounds and side conversations happening in the background, is known as the “Cocktail Party Effect,” it has baffled psychologists for years. It's also called "selective auditory attention" or "selective hearing."
The cocktail party effect refers to a phenomenon wherein the brain focuses a person's attention on a particular stimulus, usually auditory. This focus excludes a range of other stimuli from conscious awareness, as when a partygoer follows a single conversation in a noisy room.
Apr 1, 2015 · The difficulties associated with understanding speech in multiple-talker situations often are associated with the term “cocktail-party problem” (or “cocktail-party effect”), coined by Colin Cherry in his 1953 paper.
Jan 1, 2000 · These studies demonstrate that speech intelligibility in conditions involving interfering speech is significantly poorer for the average hearing-impaired listener than for the normal hearing.
Nov 5, 2022 · Selective listening to cocktail-party speech involves a network of auditory and inferior frontal cortical regions. However, cognitive and motor cortical regions are differentially...
Apr 1, 2015 · Abstract. How do we recognize what one person is saying when others are speaking at the same time? This review summarizes widespread research in psychoacoustics, auditory scene analysis, and attention, all dealing with early processing and selection of speech, which has been stimulated by this question.
