Professors Xue Han (left) and Kamal Sen (right) from Boston University’s College of Engineering won a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the study of the “cocktail ...
It has long been known that the brain preferentially processes information that we focus our attention on—a classic example is the so-called cocktail party effect. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...
In a busy room full of talking people, most of us can still pick out one voice to focus on. This common yet complex task—known as the “cocktail party effect”—relies on the brain’s incredible ability ...
People struggling to follow a conversation in noisy situations could soon be helped by artificial intelligence after a technological breakthrough that claimed to have solved the "cocktail party ...
Imagine watching a speaker and another person nearby is loudly crunching from a bag of chips. To deal with this, a person could adjust their attention to downplay those crunch noises or focus their ...