Brain can track two voices at once when switching attention, study finds
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A PLOS Biology study using EEG shows that when people switch attention between two simultaneous voices, the brain briefly tracks both streams before settling on the new speaker. This overlap corresponds to a dip in alpha brainwaves, indicating mental effort, and researchers used large language models to model how listeners rebuild the conversational thread after each switch.
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