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You can identify your own name in a crowded room.
A 1959 study by Neville Moray demonstrated that while you filter out irrelevant conversations, your brain continues to monitor for personally relevant stimuli.
The 'breakthrough' effect of one's own name was a subsequent discovery by Neville Moray (1959), extending Cherry's 1953 research on selective attention.
You are never truly ignoring your environment.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Cherry, 1953
- What the check found
- While Cherry (1953) is the seminal paper on the 'Cocktail Party Effect,' the specific claim regarding 'personally relevant stimuli' is a later finding by Moray (1959).
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.