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.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics


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