Study of EEG signals for Focus Detection for Cocktail Party Phenomenon using Multiple Sources of Sound

There are several scenarios where individuals must focus on one conversation while multiple conversations are happening around them. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as the cocktail party phenomenon. People with impaired hearing lack this ability. The research centers around finding a solution for this problem to eventually develop a hearing aid better suited for better directional intelligibility. A g.Nautilus headset is used in this study to obtain EEG data. In this study, training data is extracted from a headset placed on a test subject's head and is analyzed using a machine learning algorithm. In this study, two experiments were conducted, and data was gathered from eight test subjects. Results show a significant change in terms of accuracy depending upon the environment. The data gathered presents the test subject's ability to listen to one auditory stimulus over the other when directed to do so.