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…
- Cross-modal Plasticity(also: Cross-modal Reorganisation, Cross-modal Cortical Recruitment, Sensory Substitution)
- A neurological phenomenon in which brain regions typically dedicated to processing one sensory modality are repurposed to process information from another sense, often as a result of sensory deprivation. In deaf individuals, auditory cortical areas can reorganise to support…
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