Category: Auditory Neuroscience
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Visit us at CNS
UPDATE — The Volcano ash that Island is kindly supplying might prevent us from getting to Montréal. Let’s see whether we make it until the poster session starts on Sunday. But I am slightly pessimistic on that. I am currently quite busy with finishing off loads of old data and preparing new adventures in auditory […]
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New articles
May I humbly point you to three new articles I had the honour to be involved in recently. Firstly, Chris Petkov, Nikos Logothetis and I have put together a very broad overview over what we think is the current take on processing streams of voice, speech and, more generally, vocalisation input in primates. It appears […]
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What is it with degraded speech and working memory?
Upcoming monday, I will present in-house some of my recent ruminating on the concept of “verbal” working memory and on-line speech comprehension. It is an ancient issue that received some attention mainly in the 1980s, in the light of Baddeley’s great (read: testable) working memory architecture including the now famous phonological store or buffer. Now, […]
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Why will a person with a right-hemispheric stroke not become aphasic…
… if spectral (fine-frequency) details of the speech signal are “predominantly tracked in the right auditory cortex”, Prof. Sophie Scott just rightly asked after my talk fifteen minutes ago at SfN. I am not sure what Robert Zatorre and David Poeppel would answer, but I think that this is not an easy question and it can […]
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Talk at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington, DC on Wednesday
If you happen to be at SfN this week, you might want to check out my short presentation on a recent study [1] we did: What do spectral (frequency-domain) and temporal (time-domain) features really contribute to speech comprehension processes in the temporal lobes? It is in the Auditory Cortex Session (710), taking place in Room 145B. […]