Cope's gray treefrogs meet the cocktail party problem

(University of Minnesota) Our auditory system is able to home in on the message being conveyed by the person you're talking with even in a noisy room full of people. The secret to rising above the noise -- a dilemma known in the world of sound science as 'the cocktail party problem' -- turns out to lie in its ability to discern patterns in the background noise and selectively ignore such patterns, according to a new study.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news