Target articleRöer, J. P., & Cowan, N. (2021). A Preregistered Replication and Extension of the Cocktail Party Phenomenon: One’s Name Captures Attention, Unexpected Words Do Not. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47 (2), 234-242.
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Röer& Cowan (2021)investigated the “cocktail party phenomenon”, which illustrates the ability of the attentional system to detect highly relevant stimuli, even though they are presented in an ignored auditory channel.
Questions1.
Describe what a “cocktail party phenomenon” is, as investigated in the present study. With regards the three main purposes of this study described towards the end of the Introduction, what is new about this study that was not addressed in the previous studies of the cocktail party phenomenon?
