Humans have the capacity to detect and concentrateon a desired sound or conversation, no matterhow noisy the auditory environment is (Cocktailparty effect ). This acuity is attributed to auditoryselective attention, especially, to auditory spatialattention. A number of results have highlightedthe benefits of spatial selective attention such as directionalseparation of sound sources and enhancementof sound intelligibility for a particular direction(e.g. ). Yet, the effects of source distanceon human auditory attention remain unclear.
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