Listeners cannot attend to two competing stimuli simultaneously.

Name: Listeners cannot attend to two competing stimuli simultaneously.
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This is known as the selective attention phenomenon, which refers to our ability to focus on one source of information while ignoring other sources. This is because our brain has limited cognitive resources to allocate, and attending to multiple stimuli at the same time would overload our cognitive system.

Listeners Cannot Attend to Two Competing Stimuli Simultaneously