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Radio 4,1 min

The Cocktail Party Effect

Mind Changers

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Are you sitting comfortably? Claudia Hammond conducts this dichotic listening experiment to prove the ground-breaking work of psychologist, Donald Broadbent, into how we filter out superfluous information and focus on what matters to us. Part of Mind Changers - Donald Broadbent and the Cocktail Party on BBC Radio 4.

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