Measuring the auditory dynamics of selective attention
Friday, August 22, 2008 - 01:56
in Psychology & Sociology
Call it the cocktail party effect: how an individual can participate in a one-on-one conversation within a cluster of people, switch to another, pick up important comments while tuning out others, change topics and return to the first conversation.
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