Cocktail Party Effect
September 3, 2015 • by
Marc Airhart
Your brain has to do all sorts of tricks to focus on just one voice floating in a sea of noise, including localization
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How do we manage to follow a conversation with a friend in the middle of a noisy room? Neuroscientists, like Nace Golding, are still working out the details—but what they've learned so far is pretty amazing.