Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Brain discards voices to cope with cocktail party

  • News
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Speakers who are not the focus of attention are 'not even heard'.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Mesgarani, N. & Chang, E. F. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11020 (2012).

Download references

Authors
  1. Kerri Smith
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Related links

Related links in Nature Research

Voicegrams transform brain activity into words 2012-Jan-31

Neuroscience: Opening up brain surgery 2009-Oct-14

Penguins and the ?cocktail party effect? 1999-Jul-01

Related external links

Edward Chang

Cocktail party effect

The Nature podcast team discusses the research, and tries out a version of the experiment.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Smith, K. Brain discards voices to cope with cocktail party. Nature (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2012.10466

Download citation

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2012.10466

  • Springer Nature Limited

Search

Navigation