If you are engaged in a conversation with Juls and hear your name mentioned by Clare and Cole who are talking across the room, you've just experience the cocktail party effect.

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The cocktail party effect refers to the brain's ability to focus on and attend to a single conversation in a noisy environment, but still pick up on relevant information from other conversations happening nearby. In this scenario, the person was engaged in a conversation with Juls but still noticed their own name being mentioned by Clare and Cole across the room.

If You Are Engaged in a Conversation with Juls and Hear