Oregon Public Broadcasting: Psychologist weighs in on communication habits of humans, animals

A story on Oregon Public Broadcasting about the similarities in the communication habits of humans and animals interviews Michelle Dent, assistant professor of psychology. "The 'cocktail party effect' or the 'cocktail party problem' is the problem that humans have, similar to what humans have, when they're trying to hear out, or listen, to a speaker when that speaker is embedded in a lot of broad-band noise, such as what you might find at a cocktail party when you're trying to listen to one person, and there's a lot of diffuse sound around you," she said.