New preprint by our PhD student Fabian Schmidt and colleagues, where they show that as speech becomes less intelligible (manipulated via vocoding), tracking shifts from the syllabic (linguistic) to the modulation (acoustic) rate of speech: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.25.437033
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Out now in BMC Biology! Work by our PhD student Moritz Köhler, Gianpaolo Demarchi and Nathan Weisz: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00992-8
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New preprint by Nina Suess and colleagues: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rcfxv They investigate how linguistic characteristics of language and hearing impairment have an impact on lip reading abilities and provide a new tool to asses lip reading abilities for German speakers, the so called Salzburg Lip Reading Test (SaLT)!
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New preprint by Quirin Gehmacher & Patrick Reisinger (shared first authorship, together with Thomas Hartmann, Thomas Keintzel, Sebastian Rösch, Konrad Schwarz from MED-EL & Nathan Weisz) where they show that human hearing nerve activity is modulated by selective attention: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.01.433316v1
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