The ability to follow an individual conversation due to the "cocktail party effect" involves ___ of the competing conversations, presumably due to the action of the ___

a. distortion; ossicles
b. potentiation; inner hair cells
c. suppression; outer hair cells
d. none of the above is correct


C

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