Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Cocktail Party Effect
- The human ability to focus auditory attention on a single speaker or sound source while filtering out competing voices and background noise. Named after the experience of following one conversation at a noisy party, this perceptual phenomenon demonstrates that the auditory…
- Cocktail party effect(also: Selective auditory attention)
- The well-documented human ability to focus auditory attention on a single speech source among multiple simultaneous conversations, while still detecting relevant information (such as one's name) in unattended streams. The cocktail party effect is foundational to the design of…
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