Modern research on attention began with the analysis of the "cocktail party problem" by Colin Cherry in 1953.
Edward Colin Cherry (1914–1979) was a British cognitive scientist whose main contributions were in focused auditory attention, specifically the cocktail party problem regarding the capacity to follow one conversation while many other conversations are going on in a noisy room.
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