Normal listeners possess the remarkable perceptual ability to select a single speech stream
among many competing talkers. However, few studies of selective attention have addressed …

Our ability to selectively attend to one auditory signal amid competing input streams,
epitomized by the “Cocktail Party” problem, continues to stimulate research from various …

In realistic auditory environments, people rely on both attentional control and attentional
selection to extract intelligible signals from a cluttered background. We used functional …

The cortical representation of the acoustic features of continuous speech is the foundation of
speech perception. In this study, noninvasive magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings …

Spatially selective attention allows for the preferential processing of relevant stimuli when
more information than can be processed in detail is presented simultaneously at distinct …

In noisy environments, we use auditory selective attention to actively ignore distracting
sounds and select relevant information, as during a cocktail party to follow one particular …

Selective attention is the mechanism that allows focusing one's attention on a particular
stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, for instance, on a single conversation in a …

The ability to focus on and understand one talker in a noisy social environment is a critical
social-cognitive capacity, whose underlying neuronal mechanisms are unclear. We …

The ability to parse a complex auditory scene into perceptual objects is facilitated by a
hierarchical auditory system. Successive stages in the hierarchy transform an auditory scene …

Distinguishing between speakers and focusing attention on one speaker in multi‐speaker
environments is extremely important in everyday life. Exactly how the brain accomplishes …