Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in auditory perception.
- Cocktail Party Effect
- The human ability to focus auditory attention on a single speaker or sound source while filtering out competing voices and background noise. Named after the experience of following one conversation at…
- Cocktail party effect (Selective auditory attention)
- The well-documented human ability to focus auditory attention on a single speech source among multiple simultaneous conversations, while still detecting relevant information (such as one's name) in un…
- Timbre (Tone Colour, Tone Color)
- The perceived quality or 'colour' of a sound that distinguishes different sources playing the same pitch and loudness — for instance, the difference between a flute, a violin, and a human voice singin…
- Working memory (Short-term memory)
- The cognitive system responsible for temporarily holding and manipulating information during complex tasks such as language comprehension, reasoning, and decision-making. Working memory has limited ca…