The concept of the cocktail party problem (CPP) was coined by Cherry (1953). It was proposed to address the phenomenon associated with human auditory system that, in a cocktail party environment, humans have the ability to focus their listening attention on a single speaker when multiple conversations and background interferences and noise are presented simultaneously. Many researchers and scie...

The human auditory system has an unparalleled ability to solve what is known as the cocktail problem: the task of perceptually separating superimposed acoustic sources in a noisy environment. Information about the auditory system can inform our choices of representation and computation. Recent progress has been made from several diier-ent approaches to the acoustic source separation problem. Co...

In the search for improved tools with which to control bovine tuberculosis, the development of enhanced immunodiagnostic reagents is a high priority. Such reagents are required to improve the performance of tuberculin-based reagents and allow the discrimination of vaccinated cattle from those infected with Mycobacterium bovis. In this study, we identified the immunodominant, frequently recogniz...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Masked semantic priming in cocktail party situation The present study aimed at testing automatic semantic processing in the auditory modality using the cocktail party situation. Participants had to perform a lexical decision task on a target item embedded in a multi-talker babble. This babbl...

The human auditory system is known to be able to easily analyze and decompose complex acoustic scenes into its constituent acoustic sources. This requires the integration of a multitude of acoustic cues, a phenomenon that is often referred to as cocktail-party processing. Auditory Scene Analysis, especially the segregation and comprehension of concurrent speakers, is one of the key features in ...