title: Asymmetric performance in the cocktail party effect: implications for the design of spatial audio displays.
abstract: An experiment was conducted to determine the extent to which hemispheric specialization is manifested in the performance of tasks in which listeners are required to attend to one of several simultaneously spoken speech communications. Speech intelligibility and response time were measured under factorial combinations of the number of simultaneous talkers, the target talker hemifield, and the spatial arrangement of talkers. Intelligibility was found to be mediated by all of the independent variables. Results are discussed in terms of the design of adaptive spatial audio interfaces for speech communications. Actual or potential applications of this research include the design of adaptive spatial audio interfaces for speech communications.
authors.affiliation: Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433-7022, USA. robert.bolia@wpafb.af.mil
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Boila
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Morley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D003142:Communication; D003626:Data Display; D004777:Environment; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013017:Sound Localization; D013037:Spatial Behavior; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*