The cocktail party effect — our stunning ability to filter out words and sounds
It's a noisy world yet we somehow cope in the cocktail party of life.
Joshika Komarla is a wildlife conservationist and science writer based in Bangalore, India. Armed with a triple major in zoology, botany, and chemistry, she pursued scientific communication to fulfil her lifelong fascination with all questions silly and obscure. Her downtime (read: all her time) is spent protecting innocent cats and birds from her pup, Nala.
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