Selective listening in competing-talker situations (restaurants, parties, etc.) is an
extraordinarily difficult task for many people. For individuals with hearing loss, this difficulty …

The cocktail party effect refers to the human sense of hearing's ability to pay attention to a
single conversation while filtering out all other background noise. To mimic this human …

Abstract The Cocktail Party Effect refers to the ability of the human sense of hearing to
extract a specific target sound source from a mixture of background noises in complex …

Listeners with normal-hearing often overlook their ability to comprehend speech in noisy
environments effortlessly. Our brain's adeptness at identifying and amplifying attended …

Focusing on a specific conversation amidst multiple interfering talkers presents a significant
challenge, especially for the hearing-impaired. Brain-controlled assistive hearing devices …

Introduction At every Acoustical Society of America (ASA) meeting, we mingle in one big hall
at the conference venue and socialize. Some like to catch up with old friends; others …

As we move beyond our current approach that centers on correcting for hearing loss to an
approach that emphasizes feeding the brain optimal information about incoming sound, we …

Dining in a crowded restaurant with your parents, among the bangs of cutlery and dishes,
and the cry of a baby across the room, you are able to effortlessly concentrate on your …

Hearing-impaired people often struggle to follow the speech stream of an individual talker in
noisy environments. Recent studies show that the brain tracks attended speech and that the …

Contemporary hearing aids are markedlylimited in their most important role: improving
speech perception in dynamic “cocktail party” environments with multiple, competing talkers …