At a cocktail party, we can follow the speech of the person to whom we are talking, while the conversations around us become mere noise. Wundt would explain this phenomenon by saying that:

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Wundt believed in the concept of apperception, which is the ability of the mind to organize and make sense of sensory information. In this case, the listener's attention and focus on the conversation with the person they are talking to is enhanced by the mental force of apperception, which allows them to filter out the background conversations and noise.

At a Cocktail Party, We Can Follow the Speech of the Person