Auditory Perception: Attentive Solution to the Cocktail Party Problem.
A recent study has demonstrated how the focus of auditory attention can rapidly shift to follow spectrally dynamic speech-like sounds in the presence of a similar interferer. This requires multidimensional variation in sound features and a minimum spacing in spectral feature space.
Starkey Hearing Research Centre, 2110 Shattuck St #408, Berkeley, CA 94704 USA and School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Electronic address: simon_carlile@starkey.com.
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