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In A Din Of Voices, Our Brains Can Tune To One Originally
published on Thu March 7, 2013 11:49 am Scientists are beginning
to understand how people tune in to a single voice in a crowded,
noisy room. This ability, known as the "cocktail party effect,"
appears to rely on areas of the brain that have completely
filtered out unwanted sounds, researchers report in the journal
Neuron. So when a person decides to focus on a particular
speaker, other speakers "have no representation in those [brain]
areas," says Elana Zion Golumbic of Columbia University. The
ability to extract sense from a