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Our brains are pretty smart. The auditory cortex (and the visual system) is very plastic for the first few years. We can pick out and follow individual conversations when multiple people are talking.
It would be plausible the MIT mechanism is at work in separating instruments in music, and even some things like "soundstage."
Our hearing might have a higher layer as is found in reading where we rapidly evaluate the word, with the possibility of error, move on, then back up if the sentence is not making sense.
bcs.mit.edu
This is a model, not necessarily how it works in the brain.
(NSF-funded journal article is linked in the article. Good research.)
It would be plausible the MIT mechanism is at work in separating instruments in music, and even some things like "soundstage."
Our hearing might have a higher layer as is found in reading where we rapidly evaluate the word, with the possibility of error, move on, then back up if the sentence is not making sense.
How the brain handles the “cocktail party problem” | Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Using a computational model, neuroscientists showed how the brain can selectively focus attention on one voice among others in a noisy environment.
This is a model, not necessarily how it works in the brain.
(NSF-funded journal article is linked in the article. Good research.)
