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Cardiac and Cortical aperiodic activity are modulated by age, cognitive states and in several disorders. Are these independent processes or can cardiac aperiodic activity, captured by surface electrodes, explain effects attributed to cortical activity? Find it out in a new preprint by Fabian Schmidt and colleagues: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.07.515423

Do you want to know what is influencing your lip reading abilities and if deaf participants are really better lip readers? Spoiler: The answer might surprise you: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275585

Interesting work by Tzvetan Popov & colleagues, with contributions from the Salzburg Brain Dynamics Lab: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac285

New work by PhD student Ya-Ping Chen & colleagues, where they used MEG to show that speech intelligibility differentially impacts the temporal evolution of neural speech tracking: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.26.497639

Work spearheaded by PhD students Juliane Schubert & Fabian Schmidt where they show how an individuals tendency to anticipate simple acoustic events („prediction tendency”) influences their encoding of the speech envelope: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.22.489224

Out now in NeuroImage by our PhD student Chandra Haider and colleagues, showing that surgical face masks impair neural tracking of speech features.: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119044

Does interaural attention affect auditory processing already at the level of the cochlea? Find out more in the new preprint by our PhD student Moritz Köhler & Nathan Weisz: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.21.481289

Out now in The Journal of Neuroscience: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0665-21.2021 Quirin Gehmacher & Patrick Reisinger (shared first autorship) + colleagues showing that cochlear spiral ganglion cells are sensitive to top-down attentional modulations!

Out now in Cerebral Cortex! The brain tracks unheard resonant frequencies when looking at visual speech, and this ability is declining substantially with age. Could this also impact your hearing? Find out more: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab518

New preprint by PhD student Chandra Haider using MEG for speech reconstruction to show which acoustic / linguistic are affected by a speaker wearing a face mask: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.28.461909Funded by the special SARS-COV-2 program of the FWF!