Auditory Neuroscience Lab

🔖PARTICIPANTS NEEDED for an exciting brain imaging study!🔖 We're looking for based participants who are native speakers of various langauges (e.g., Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Hungarian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Greek, Ukrainian, Czech, and many others p if you are not sure if your language qualifies, please get in touch) who live in the UK for less than 3 years. 🧠🧠🧠

Does phrase-specific knowledge play a role in perceiving musicality in speech? Can that knowledge be consolidated in long-term memory and influence the perceived phrase musicality? 🎶💭🔁 Find some answers here: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.41.5.348 Birkbeck, University of London Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London 🧵1/5

Rapid Learning and Long-term Memory in the Speech-to-song Illusion The speech-to-song illusion is a perceptual transformation in which a spoken phrase initially heard as speech begins to sound like song across repetitions. In two experiments, we tested whether phrase-specific learning and memory processes engaged by repetition contribute to the illusion. In Experim...

🔖PARTICIPANTS NEEDED for an exciting brain imaging study!🔖 We're looking for two groups of based participants (1) Native speakers of tonal languages (Mandarin or Cantonese Chinese) and (2) Native speakers of non-tonal langauges (e.g., Spanish, French, Italian) who live in the UK for less than 3 years. 🧠🧠🧠 Birkbeck, University of London Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London UCL PALS UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Birkbeck Students' Union

Which statistics does the brain track while monitoring the rapid progression of sensory information? https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.08.574691 by Sijia Zhao, Benjamin Skerritt-Davis, Mounya Elhilali, Fred Dick & Maria Chait 🧵1/5

Sustained EEG responses to rapidly unfolding stochastic sounds reflect precision tracking The brain is increasingly viewed as a statistical learning machine, where our sensations and decisions arise from the intricate interplay between bottom-up sensory signals and constantly changing expectations regarding the surrounding world. Which statistics does the brain track while monitoring the...