Colin Cherry (British psychologist)

Colin Cherry was a British psychologist known for his research on attention and auditory processing. He studied how people can focus on one conversation or sound source amid many, a phenomenon called the "cocktail party effect." Cherry's experiments showed that our brains can filter out irrelevant stimuli and concentrate on what matters, helping us understand how selective attention works in complex listening environments. His work laid the foundation for understanding human auditory attention and influenced fields like cognitive psychology, communication, and signal processing.