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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!

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

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

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)!

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