He served as an academic and professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of Surrey,[1] known from his 1959 research of the cocktail party effect.
[1][3] Moray started his academic career as assistant lecturer in psychology at the University of Hull in 1959.
[4] Moray became known for his scientific contributions to the cocktail party effect, which became his major research interest for about two decades.
[2] This effect concerns the phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli.
[9] This success in recognizing one's own name in the unattended channel can be explained using Cherry's initial report on dichotic shadowing.
Cherry found that the verbal content of the message in the unattended channel was completely blocked, so that the words were treated as merely sounds.