Cope's gray treefrogs meet the cocktail party problem
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 14:32
in Psychology & Sociology
Our auditory system is able to home in on the message being conveyed by the person you're talking with even in a noisy room full of people. The secret to rising above the noise -- a dilemma known in the world of sound science as 'the cocktail party problem' -- turns out to lie in its ability to discern patterns in the background noise and selectively ignore such patterns, according to a new study.