Some Experiments on the Recognition of Speech, with One and with Two Ears

By E. C. Cherry. 1953

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Music Source Separation in the Waveform Domain (2019, background): “Cherry ﬁrst noticed the “cocktail party effect” [Cherry, 1953]: how the human brain is able to separate a single conversation out of a surrounding noise from a room full of people chatting.”
Looking to listen at the cocktail party (2018, neutral): “The way neural systems achieve this feat, which is known as the cocktail party effect [Cherry 1953], remains unclear.”
The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: The importance of working memory capacity (2001, background): “Cherry (1953) developed the dichotic listening procedure in which the task is to repeat aloud or “shadow” the message presented to one ear and ignore a different message presented to the other ear.”
Hierarchical Processing in Spoken Language Comprehension (2003, background): “Low-level auditory or attentional processes that segregate speech from noise or restore continuity to speech briefly masked by noise (Cherry, 1953; Warren, 1970; Bregman, 1990) may assist in perceiving speech heard in noisy environments.”
A selective review of selective attention research from the past century. (2001, background): “The pioneering experiments on selective hearing were conducted by several different people, including Cherry (1953).”
Sport Psychology: Contemporary Themes (2004, background): “Coakley and White (1992) found that adolescents and young adults who did not engage in physical activity gave reasons that included both personal constraints (low perceived competence, boredom and perceived negative evaluation by peers) and external constraints (money, lack of choice, support from s”
Transactional Memory, 2nd edition (2010, methodology): “A seminal experiment was Cherry’s dichotic listening task, in which a person was asked to repeat a message heard in one ear, while ignoring a different message played to the other ear [60].”
Engaging students in active learning: The case for personalized multimedia messages. (2000, background): “This is the case of the well-known cocktail party effect, in which a person who is attending to one conversation is able to detect his or her own name in a separate conversation that is taking place simultaneously in the same room (Cherry, 1953).”
CONSTRAINTS ON “NOTICING THE GAP” (2003, background): “Results from studies on shadowing (Cherry, 1953; Glucksberg & Cowan; Norman, 1969, as cited in Coren, Ward, & Enns, 1994), in which two messages are given (a different message in each ear) but only one repeated by the participant, have implications for the use of recall.”
Cracking the cocktail party problem by multi-beam deep attractor network (2017, background): “The cocktail party problem has been one of the most difﬁcult challenges in audio signal processing for more than 60 years [1, 2, 3].”
THE PROSODY OF SPEECH: MELODY AND RHYTHM (2001, unknown): “Cherry (1953) addressed himself to the question of how one recognizes what one person is saying when others are speaking at the same time, a phenomenon he referred to as the 'cocktail party effect'.”
Issues in the Classification of Multimodal Communication Signals (2005, background): “A common example is the “cocktail party” phenomenon with human speech: it is easier, in noisy situations such as a crowded room, to understand a speaker who can be both seen and heard (see Cherry 1953 and Sumby and Pollack 1954; Partan 2004 discusses this further).”
Comparison of Four Primary Methods for Coordinating the Interruption of People in Human-Computer Interaction (2002, background): “People have a natural ability and predisposition to multitask (Cherry, 1953; Cypher, 1986; Woods, 1995).”