How do we pay attention to one speaker when many people are talking?

Ed Lalor, PhD, (Lab: urmc.info/1ph) associate professor of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester aims to understand how the brain sense, perceives, and pays attention to things in the world. #URochesterResearch #neuroscience #brain #language

[@josephcoon5809]

I would say it’s a fast Fourier transform being broadcast to an array of stored patterns which are reflected back based on the degree of coherence between the broad cast signal and the stored pattern.
For instance, if you have 100 stored pattern of sounds related to 100 people you know well, then any sound patterns hitting that array will only reflect back of the incoming pattern matches the sites pattern. Any broadcast pattern not coherent with a stored pattern rapidly diminishes before reaching any conscious processing.

[@timothylevin2661]

Say what?

[@josephcoon5809]

He’s talking about how you can distinguish a person’s voice in a room full of voices when your ears only pick up a single stream of air waves.