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Connie K. Ho for RedOrbit.com Imagine this: you’re in a noisy room and you spot an old acquaintance.  You go up to speak to him and you can distinctly hear what he’s saying. While his words succinctly come out clearly, you blur out the rest of the room and don’t focus on the outside noise. This selective hearing, deemed the “cocktail party effect,” has made headway with a study by two scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The research, published...