Difference between revisions of "Cocktail party effect"
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In phonetics, a cocktail party effect is a binaural hearing (using both ears) which helps us to separate interesting sounds from a background of irrelevant noise.
Example
In a room where several conversations are taking place, one can focus on one of them and ignore the rest.
