BU Research: “The Cocktail party Problem”
(10/05/15) Professor Gerald Kidd and Research Assistant Professor Jayaganesh Swaminathan quoted.
Expert quote:
“Everybody realizes that the coffee grinder in a coffee shop creates all this noise and racket that you want to avoid. When you communicate in a room full of people, the noise is not just loud, it’s also interesting, and competes with the information that you’re trying to process.”