你身處一場熱鬧的派對,音樂聲、說笑聲不絕于耳。你和同伴聊天都得喊著說話??墒?,一旦周圍有人提到你的名字,你立馬就能聽到,似乎周圍的喧鬧都被神秘地屏蔽了。這種情況就叫cocktail party effect(雞尾酒會效應(yīng))。
The cocktail party effect (also known as selective attention) is the phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much the same way that a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.
雞尾酒會效應(yīng)(cocktail party effect),也叫選擇性關(guān)注(selective attention),指將自己的聽覺注意力放在某一個特定的關(guān)注興奮點而將其余的點全部過濾出去的能力,就好像身處熱鬧派對中的人仍然能夠?qū)W⒂谝欢螌υ挕?/p>
This effect is what allows most people to "tune in" to a single voice and "tune out" all others. It may also describe a similar phenomenon that occurs when one can immediately detect words of importance originating from unattended stimuli, for instance hearing one's name in another conversation.
這種效應(yīng)能夠讓多數(shù)人將很多其他無關(guān)的聲音關(guān)掉,只選擇聽自己關(guān)注的那一個聲音。還有一個類似的情況是,人們能夠從毫不關(guān)注的興奮點中立即識別對自己重要的文字信息。例如,在別人聊天時聽到自己的名字被提及。
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