How Do Cortical Neurons Listen at a Cocktail Party?

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Material below summarizes the article, Cortical Transformation of Spatial Processing for Solving the Cocktail Party Problem: A Computational Model, published on January 13, 2016, in eNeuro and authored by Junzi Dong, H. Steven Colburn, and Kamal Sen.

The problem of following a speaker’s voice in the presence of others, the Cocktail Party Problem (CPP), remains a focus of intensive research in a diverse range of fields, including neuroscience, computer science, and speech recognition, more than 50 years after it was named. Although a difficult problem for machines to solve, humans with normal hearing solve it with relative ease, indicating a solution exists somewhere in the brain. Our eNeuro paper proposes a model cortical network for solving this problem based on recent physiological data.

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