Sentences with phrase «noisy cocktail party»

DEVICES like Amazon's Echo and Google Home can usually deal with requests from a lone person, but like us they struggle in situations such as a noisy cocktail party, where several people are speaking at once.

We can tune in to just one speaker at a noisy cocktail party with little difficulty — an ability that has been a scientific mystery since the early 1950s.

If you are at a noisy cocktail party and suddenly hear someone nearby talking about you, your ability to eavesdrop on that conversation and ignore all the others around you could result from the synchronous firing of cells.

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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.

WHEN it's noisy, you can still keep track of a conversation amid the sound of revving motorcycles or a raucous cocktail party.