Sentences with phrase «cocktail party effect»

Simon, what you viewed as «eavesdropping» was for many of us the essence of Twitter — the «cocktail party effect.»

Sometimes called the cocktail party effect, the ability to tune out a noisy room to focus on one conversation, or auditory stream segregation, part of the larger field of auditory scene analysis, is apparently universal to all animals and serves as a critical survival mechanism.

This isolation of a single noise among others is known as the «cocktail party effect».

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In effect, Pachauri was defending a proposition based on, effectively, a cocktail - party quality speculation reported in a telephone interview in a throwaway, non-peer-reviewed article in a popular magazine.

From cool cocktail parties to big bang bashes celebrate in style with these decorative effects