Brain’s Gain Mechanism Sheds Light on Focusing in Crowded Rooms
TL;DR
MIT researchers show that a simple multiplicative gain—boosting neural units tied to a target voice’s pitch and location—can explain how people focus on one conversation in a noisy room, reproducing human behavior and errors; the model also reveals a horizontal advantage in spatial separation and could guide improvements for cochlear implants.
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