The ``Cocktail Party Effect''

Cocktail Party Effect: ability to follow speech from one speaker in the presence of chatter from many others.
What allows us to distinguish speech from one speaker when two or more are speaking simultaneously?
Location: tuning in on a particular speaker is easier when speakers are in different locations.
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twoVoicesLocation.pd: Two different messages voiced by the same person are played simultaneously:
1. with both through both channels,
2. each through a different channel.
- In which is the message easier to decipher?

``Music 175: Space'' by Tamara Smyth, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego (UCSD).