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Cocktail party effect — The cocktail party effect describes the ability to focus one s listening attention on a single talker among a mixture of conversations and background noises, ignoring other conversations.[1] The effect enables most people to talk in a noisy place … Wikipedia
cocktail party effect — noun the increased difficulty in understanding human speech which hearing impaired people experience when listening in a crowded environment …
Cocktail party (disambiguation) — A Cocktail party is a party where cocktails are served. Cocktail party may also refer to: Cocktail party effect, the ability to pay attention to one conversation among many Cocktail party problem, the digital signal processing application of the… … Wikipedia
The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party — is a common name for the annual college football game between the University of Florida Gators and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, one of the great rivalries in college football; it is officially known as the Florida Georgia/Georgia Florida… … Wikipedia
Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 2006 — Canadian politics/leadership race party = Liberal year = 2006 date = December 2 December 3 2006 location = Montreal, Quebec winner = Stéphane Dion replaces = Paul Martin numcands = 8 ballots= 4 entryfee = C$50,000 requirement = signatures of at… … Wikipedia
White Panther Party — The White Panthers were a far left, anti racist, white American political collective founded in 1968 by Lawrence (Pun) Plamondon and Leni and John Sinclair. It was started in response to an interview where Huey P. Newton, co founder of the Black… … Wikipedia
Dream speech — In 1906 the famous German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin published a monograph titled Über Sprachstörungen im Traume ( On Language Disturbances in Dreams ). In his psychiatry textbook Kraepelin used the shortcut Traumsprache to denote language… … Wikipedia
Sound localization — refers to a listener s ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in direction and distance. It may also refer to the methods in acoustical engineering to simulate the placement of an auditory cue in a virtual 3D space (see… … Wikipedia
ear, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction organ of hearing and equilibrium that detects and analyzes noises by transduction (or the conversion of sound waves into electrochemical impulses) and maintains the sense of balance (equilibrium). The human ear, like … Universalium
Hearing impairment — See also: Deaf culture for the social movement.. Deaf and/or hard of hearing Classification and external resources The International Symbol for Deafness … Wikipedia
