Colin Cherry Quotes

1914–1979 United Kingdom

Edward Colin Cherry (23 June 1914 – 23 November 1979) was a British cognitive scientist whose main contributions were in focused auditory attention, specifically regarding the cocktail party problem, regarding the capacity to follow one conversation while many other conversations are going on in a noisy room.

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not communication in the sense we are adopting here, and does not raise the same subtle and difficult questions. What "goods" do we exchange when we send messages to one another?

All that we have to do is to pick them out of the dictionary and string them in the right order.... (p.68)

On Human Communication (1957)

The dictionary definition of communication [...] includes the communication of goods and supplies. [...] But transport of goods is not communication in the sense we are adopting here, and does not raise the same subtle and difficult questions. What "goods" do we exchange when we send messages to one another?

On Human Communication (1957)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Colin Cherry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.