Commuri et al. article online at bioRxiv
Vrishab’s article Changes in Cortical Responses Time-Locked to Continuous Speech in the High-Gamma Band Depend on Selective Attention is now online at bioRxiv.
— 21 July 2023
Soleimani et al. article online at bioRxiv
Behrad’s article Changes in Cortical Directional Connectivity during Difficult Listening in Younger and Older Adults is now online at bioRxiv.
— 22 May 2023
Johns et al. article online at PsyArXiv
Mike’s article Attention Mobilization as a Modulator of Listening Effort: Evidence from Pupillometry is now online at PsyArXiv.
— 19 May 2023
Karunathilake et al. article online at bioRxiv
Dushyanthi’s article Neural Tracking Measures of Speech Intelligibility: Manipulating Intelligibility while Keeping Acoustics Unchanged is now online at bioRxiv.
— 18 May 2023
Karunathilake et al. article accepted at Journal of Neurophysiology
Dushyanthi’s article Effects of Aging on Cortical Representations of Continuous Speech was just accepted at the Journal of Neurophysiology. This article is the first of several to come out of a multi-lab, multi-year experiment, itself a cornerstone of a project sponsored by the National Institute for Aging of the National Institutes of Health (P01-AG055365) .
— 25 April 2023
Soleimani et al. article accepted at Brain Communications
Behrad’s article applying the methodology of Network Localized Granger Causality (NLGC) to stroke recovery, Altered Directional Functional Connectivity Underlies Post-Stroke Cognitive Recovery, was just accepted at the journal Brain Communications. This work is a multi-lab collaboration, directed by Behtash Babadi and Elisabeth Marsh, and with critical work contributed also by Proloy Das, Joshua Kulasingham, members of the Marsh lab, and Jonathan Simon.
— 12 April 2023
2023 BBI Seed Grant project funded
The Seed Grant project, Toward a non-linguistic measure of auditory processing deficits in older and younger monolingual and bilingual adults, with PIs Jonathan, Samira Anderson, and Nick Pandža, was just funded by the UMD Brain and Behavior Institute. The rest of the team includes Stefanie Kuchinsky and lab member Mike Johns (who will lead the project with the help of the rest of the team).
— 21 December 2022
Simon et al. article published at Frontiers in Neuroscience
Jonathan’s paper with Vrishab and Joshua, Time-locked auditory cortical responses in the high-gamma band: A window into primary auditory cortex, is a Perspective article at Frontiers in Neuroscience. We take a look at MEG and EEG auditory cortical responses in the high-gamma band to speech and other stimuli, in general and in particular for MEG and continuous speech. We argue that the latter provides an unmatched window into the physiology of primary auditory cortex without interference from subcortical or non-primary cortical areas.
— 10 December 2022
Welcome Dr. Karl Lerud!
We welcome postdoc Karl Lerud, the newest member of the lab.
— 9 November 2022
Karunathilake et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Dushyanthi’s article Effects of Aging on Cortical Representations of Continuous Speech is now online at bioRxiv.
— 24 August 2022
Kulasingham featured speaker at CNSP 2022, with tutorial
At this year’s Cognition and Natural Sensory Processing workshop, Joshua gave a presentation of his analysis of Temporal Response Function (TRF) components, followed by a tutorial, based on his recent paper Algorithms for Estimating Time-Locked Neural Response Components in Cortical Processing of Continuous Speech. Joshua’s talk and tutorial are both available online at the CNSP 2022 Videos website (Presentation: Session 3, starting at timestamp 1:04:08; Tutorial: Session 4 Tutorial 2 with accompanying files at CNSP tutorial resources).
— 10 August 2022
Soleimani et al. article accepted at NeuroImage
Behrad’s article introducing the methodology of Network Localized Granger Causality (NLGC), with applications, NLGC: Network Localized Granger Causality with Application to MEG Directional Functional Connectivity Analysis, was just accepted at the journal NeuroImage. This work is a multi-lab collaboration, directed by Behtash Babadi, and with critical work contributed also by Proloy Das, Dushyanthi Karunathilake, Stefanie Kuchinsky, and Jonathan Simon.
— 20 July 2022
Brodbeck & Simon article accepted at Frontiers in Neuroscience
Christian & Jonathan’s article on cortical tracking of instantaneous voice pitch, especially in the presence of a competing speaker, Cortical Tracking of Voice Pitch in the Presence of Multiple Speakers Depends 0n Selective Attention, was just accepted at Frontiers in Neuroscience.
— 08 July 2022
Kulasingham & Simon article accepted at IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Joshua’s article on Temporal Response Function (TRF) Component Analysis, Algorithms for Estimating Time-Locked Neural Response Components in Cortical Processing of Continuous Speech, was just accepted at IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
— 16 July 2022
Jonathan a Keynote Speaker at CHSCOM 2022
The in-person meeting Cognitive Hearing Science and Communications (CHSCOM) took place in Linköping Sweden this week, where Jonathan gave the Keynote talk The progression of neural speech representations through auditory cortex & beyond, from acoustics to semantics.
— 15 July 2022
New Soleimani et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Behrad’s article introducing the methodology of Network Localized Granger Causality (NLGC), with applications, NLGC: Network Localized Granger Causality with Application to MEG Directional Functional Connectivity Analysis, is now online at bioRxiv. This work is a multi-lab collaboration, directed by Behtash Babadi, and with critical work contributed also by Proloy Das, Dushyanthi Karunathilake, Stefanie Kuchinsky, and Jonathan Simon.
— 15 March 2022
Kulasingham et al. article accepted at Frontiers in Neurology
Joshua’s article on patients with minor strokes (and following their recovery), Bilaterally Reduced Rolandic Beta Band Activity in Minor Stroke Patients, was just accepted at Frontiers in Neurology. This work was done jointly with the lab of Liz Marsh at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
— 14 February 2022
Now accepting Postdoc applications!
As advertised on the Auditory List, we are looking for a postdoc to investigate Multilevel Auditory Processing of Continuous Speech. More details here.
— 6 February 2022
Kulasingham & Simon article online at bioRxiv.org
Joshua’s article Algorithms for Estimating Time-Locked Neural Response Components in Cortical Processing of Continuous Speech is now online at bioRxiv.
— 21 January 2022
Brodbeck et al. article accepted by eLife
Christian’s article Parallel Processing in Speech Perception: Local and Global Representations of Linguistic Context is was just accepted at the journal eLife. This project is a fantastic example of a cross-lab collaboration, with Ellen Lau, Philip Resnik, Shohini Bhattasali, and Aura Cruz Heredia. Look for more details on our Publications & Presentations page.
— 16 January 2022
Gillis et al. article now available at Journal of Neuroscience
Marlies Gillis, under the co-supervision of Tom Francart and Christian Brodbeck, just had her article Neural markers of speech comprehension: measuring EEG tracking of linguistic speech representations, controlling the speech acoustics released in final form at the Journal of Neuroscience.
— 15 December 2021
New Brodbeck & Simon article online at bioRxiv.org
Christian & Jonathan’s article on cortical tracking of instantaneous voice pitch, especially in the presence of a competing speaker, Cortical Tracking of Voice Pitch in the Presence of Multiple Speakers Depends 0n Selective Attention, is now online at bioRxiv.
— 07 December 2021
Joshua Kulasingham Successfully Defends Ph.D. Dissertation
Congratulations to Joshua, who successfully defended his dissertation Time-Locked Cortical Processing of Speech in Complex Environments, for his Ph.D. requirement in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
—28 October 2021
New NIH Grant Awarded
We’ve just been awarded a new 5-year R01 research grant from the National Institute of Deafness and Communicative Disorders to investigate how the brain turns speech sounds into comprehensible language. Read more about the grant Multilevel Auditory Processing of Continuous Speech, from Acoustics to Language here. Our team is lead by Jonathan Simon, Samira Anderson, Behtash Babadi, and Stefanie Kuchinsky.
—25 October 2018
Gillis et al. article accepted in Journal of Neuroscience
Marlies Gillis, under the co-supervision of Tom Francart and Christian Brodbeck, just had her article Neural markers of speech comprehension: measuring EEG tracking of linguistic speech representations, controlling the speech acoustics accepted by the Journal of Neuroscience. Look for more details on our Publications & Presentations page.
— 19 October 2021
New Kulasingham et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Joshua’s article on patients with minor strokes (and following their recovery), Bilaterally Reduced Rolandic Beta Band Activity in Minor Stroke Patients, is now online at bioRxiv. This work was done jointly with the lab of Liz Marsh at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
— 18 October 2021
Kevin wins ILS Student Researcher award
Lab member Kevin Hu was one of two winners of the Student Researcher award, given annually by the Integrated Life Sciences (ILS) program in the Honors College at the University of Maryland. Congratulations Kevin!
— 1 September 2021
Kulasingham et al. article now available at Journal of Neuroscience
Joshua’s article Cortical Processing of Arithmetic and Simple Sentences in an Auditory Attention Task, with Neha Joshi and Mohsen Rezaeizadeh, is now available at the journal online, and has received some favorable media coverage, including at IFLScience and Medical Xpress. You can also try listening to some of the equations and sentences we used in the experiment, including the “cocktail party” mix of both.
— 16 August 2021
Kulasingham wins 2021 Dean’s Research Award
Joshua is one of the winners of the 2021 Clark School of Engineering Dean’s Research Awards, coming in with 2nd Prize for the entire engineering school. Congratulations Joshua! This is a very nice followup to his being named as a 2020-2021 ECE Distinguished Dissertation Fellow in May.
— 9 August 2021
Lab well represented at CNSP 2021
The first meeting of the Cognition and Natural Sensory Processing Workshop (CNSP) had several speakers with ties to our Lab. Joshua Kulasingham (current member) and Lien Decruy (recent member) gave a talk in the Encoding and Decoding models for neural signal analysis: Use and interpretation session, and Christian Brodbeck (recent member) gave the talk Investigating speech processing with Python and Eelbrain.
— 4 August 2021
Eelbrain tutorial online at bioRxiv.org
Christian’s introductory tutorial Eelbrain: A Python toolkit for time-continuous analysis with temporal response functions is now online at bioRxiv. This tutorial was introduced in concert with Christian’s talk at CNSP 2021.
— 3 August 2021
Kulasingham et al. article accepted in Journal of Neuroscience
Joshua’s article Cortical Processing of Arithmetic and Simple Sentences in an Auditory Attention Task was just accepted by the Journal of Neuroscience. Co-authors include Neha Joshi and Mohsen Rezaeizadeh. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 14 July 2021
Brodbeck et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Christian’s article Parallel Processing in Speech Perception: Local and Global Representations of Linguistic Context is now online at bioRxiv. This project is a fantastic example of a cross-lab collaboration, with Ellen Lau, Philip Resnik, Shohini Bhattasali, and Aura Cruz Heredia.
— 3 July 2021
Paper in collaboration with partner lab of L. Elliot Hong M.D. published in Schizophrenia Research
The paper Local versus Long-Range Connectivity Patterns of Auditory Disturbance in Schizophrenia just appeared in the journal Schizophrenia Research. The research was led by Stephanie Hare, a postdoc who works with our collaborator Elliot Hong at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. There is free access to the paper for all for the next 50 days.
— 22 January 2021
Paper in collaboration with partner lab of L. Elliot Hong M.D. accepted for publication in Schizophrenia Research
The paper Local versus Long-Range Connectivity Patterns of Auditory Disturbance in Schizophrenia was just accepted by the journal Schizophrenia Research. The research was led by Stephanie Hare, a postdoc who works with our collaborator Elliot Hong at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 31 December 2020
Paper in collaboration with partner lab of Elisabeth Marsh M.D. published in PNAS
Liz Marsh, a neurologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has been leading a project in collaboration with our lab. This collaboration’s first paper just appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Christian, Joshua, and Jonathan all contributed.
— 16 December 2020
Paper in collaboration with partner lab of Elisabeth Marsh M.D. accepted for publication in PNAS
Liz Marsh, a neurologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has been leading a project in collaboration with our lab. This collaboration just produced its first paper, to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Christian, Joshua, and Jonathan all contributed.
— 17 November 2020
Brodbeck is winner in Best Poster awards at APAN 2020
Recent lab member Christian Brodbeck (now visiting Assistant Professor at University of Connecticut) won a Best Poster award at APAN 2020, for his poster Neural speech restoration at the cocktail party: Auditory cortex recovers masked speech of both attended and ignored speakers. The poster, along with others from the lab shown at APAN 2020, is available on lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 25 October 2020
Brodbeck et al. article accepted by PLOS Biology
Christian’s article Neural Speech Restoration at the Cocktail Party: Auditory Cortex Recovers Masked Speech of Both Attended and Ignored Speakers was just accepted for publication at PLOS Biology. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 15 September 2020
Zan et al. article accepted in Journal of Neurophysiology
Peng’s article Exaggerated Cortical Representation of Speech in Older Listeners: Mutual Information Analysis was just accepted by the Journal of Neurophysiology. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 27 August 2020
Kulasingham et al. article accepted in NeuroImage
Joshua’s article High Gamma Cortical Processing of Continuous Speech in Younger and Older Listeners was just accepted for publication in the journal NeuroImage. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 16 August 2020
Brodbeck and Simon article now available at Current Opinions in Physiology
Christian’s article Continuous Speech Processing has now appeared in Current Opinions in Physiology, as part of a special issue on the topic of Mammalian Hearing. The article is free to download until 28 September 2020 at https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bYFE8nMltdyJU.
— 9 August 2020
Simon delivers invited talk at CogHear
Jonathan gave an invited talk at the CogHear workshop, held virtually. His slides, and a video recording of the talk, “What Can We Decode?”, are available on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 31 July 2020
Brodbeck and Simon article accepted in Current Opinions in Physiology
Christian’s article Continuous Speech Processing was just accepted for publication in Current Opinions in Physiology, to appear in a special issue on the topic of Mammalian Hearing. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 21 July 2020
Miran et al. article accepted in PLOS Computational Biology
Sina Miran, from our partner lab of Behtash Babadi, just had his article Dynamic Estimation of Auditory Temporal Response Functions via State-Space Models with Gaussian Mixture Process Noise accepted by PLOS Computational Biology. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 21 July 2020
Das et al. article accepted in NeuroImage
Proloy Das, from our partner lab of Behtash Babadi, just had his article Neuro-Current Response Functions: A Unified Approach to MEG Source Analysis under the Continuous Stimuli Paradigm accepted by NeuroImage. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 7 January 2020
Kulasingham et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Joshua’s article High Frequency Cortical Processing of Continuous Speech in Younger and Older Listeners is now online at bioRxiv.
— 20 December 2019
Zan et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Peng’s article Exaggerated Cortical Representation of Speech in Older Listeners: Mutual Information Analysis is now online at bioRxiv.
— 20 December 2019
Brodbeck et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Christian’s article Auditory Cortex Tracks Masked Acoustic Onsets in Background Speech: Evidence for Early Cortical Stream Segregation is now online at bioRxiv. Former undergraduate lab member Alex Jiao is also a co-author.
— 8 December 2019
Lab takes MEG North America meeting by storm
Our lab had a strong presence at the recent MEG North America meeting held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on November 8-9. Both Joshua Kulasingham and Christian Brodbeck were chosen to give podium presentations, and Natalia Lapinskaya and Proloy Das presented research poster. All their presentations are available on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
—13 November 2019
Lab affiliate David Nahmias publishes article in Journal of Neural Engineering
Congratulations to David, whose article Consistency of Quantitative Electroencephalography Features in a Large Clinical Data Set was just published in the Journal of Neural Engineering.
—12 November 2019
Peng Zan Successfully Defends Ph.D. Dissertation
Congratulations to Peng, who defended his thesis Decoding Auditory Brain Responses with Mutual Information and the Effects of Aging, for his Ph.D. requirement in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
—24 October 2019
Zan et al. article accepted in Journal of Neurophysiology
Peng’s article Mutual Information Analysis of Neural Representations of Speech in Noise in the Aging Midbrain was just accepted by the Journal of Neurophysiology. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 4 October 2019
Das et al. article, on sparse neural localization of TRFs, online at bioRxiv.org
Proloy Das, from our partner lab of Behtash Babadi, has a new article Neuro-Current Response Functions: A Unified Approach to MEG Source Analysis under the Continuous Stimuli Paradigm online at bioRxiv.
— 9 September 2019
Simon delivers invited talk at CIAP
Jonathan gave an invited talk at the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP) in Lake Tahoe, California. His slides for the talk “Towards Objective Measures of Speech Perception” are available on the lab’s Publications & Presentations page.
— 19 July 2019
New BBI Seed Grant to study Neural Representations of Continuous Speech and Linguistic Context in Native and Non-native Listeners
Jonathan is Co-PI of a new campus Brain and Behavior Initiative (BBI) Seed Grant, Neural Representations of Continuous Speech and Linguistic Context in Native and Non-native Listeners, with Ellen Lau (Linguistics).
— 13 May 2019
Zan et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Peng’s article Mutual Information Analysis of Neural Representations of Speech in Noise in the Aging Midbrain is now online at bioRxiv.
— 26 April 2019
Das et al. article published in Asilomar Proceedings
Proloy Das, from our partner lab of Behtash Babadi, just had his article Cortical Localization of the Auditory Temporal Response Function from MEG via Non-convex Optimization published in the proceedings of the 2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications page.
— 19 March 2019
Presacco et al. article accepted by PLoS ONE
Alex’s article Speech-in-Noise Representation in the Aging Midbrain and Cortex: Effects of Hearing Loss was just accepted for publication at PLoS ONE. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications page.
— 6 March 2019
Now accepting Postdoc applications!
As recently advertised on the Auditory List, we are looking for a postdoc in the area of Neuroplasticity and Auditory Aging. More details here.
Update (21 April 2019): We are very happy to report that the position has now been filled, by the talented Lien Decruy, who will start after she defends here thesis this fall.
— 7 February 2019
Jonathan interviewed on “Top of Mind” radio show
Jonathan Simon was interviewed by radio host Julie Rose about The Cocktail Party Problem, on her Top of Mind show on BYUradio.
— 16 January 2019
Brodbeck et al. Current Biology article published
Christian Brodbeck’s article Rapid Transformation from Auditory to Linguistic Representations of Continuous Speech was published in its final form today in Current Biology. The article is accompanied by a very nice Dispatch (commentary) from Ed Lalor’s lab, punningly titled Great Expectations at the Speech–Language Interface.
— 17 December 2018
Brodbeck et al. Current Biology article picked up in the news
Christian Brodbeck’s article Rapid Transformation from Auditory to Linguistic Representations of Continuous Speech was published online today in Current Biology. The story has been picked up by The Daily Mail, Eureka Alert, Science Daily, Neuroscience News, Medical Xpress, DoveMed, Earth.com, cnBeta, and El Médico Interactivo.
— 29 November 2018
Brodbeck et al. article accepted by Current Biology
Christian’s article Rapid Transformation from Auditory to Linguistic Representations of Continuous Speech was just accepted for publication at Current Biology. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications page.
— 16 October 2018
Peng Zan Successfully Defends Ph.D. Proposal
Congratulations to Peng, who defended his thesis proposal Decoding Auditory Brain Responses with Mutual Information and the Effects of Aging, completing this important step of the Ph.D. program in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
—12 October 2018
Cervantes Constantino & Simon article accepted by Frontiers
Francisco’s article Restoration and Efficiency of the Neural Processing of Continuous Speech are Promoted by Prior Knowledge was just accepted for publication at Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications page. Update (31 October 2018): Now available in final form at Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.
— 9 October 2018
Brodbeck et al. article accepted by Acta Acustica united with Acustica
Christian’s article Over-Representation of Speech in Older Adults Originates from Early Response in Higher Order Auditory Cortex was just accepted for publication at Acta Acustica united with Acustica. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications page. Update (11 October 2018): Now available in final form at Acta Acustica united with Acustica.
— 10 July 2018
Simon delivers invited talk in Salamanca
Jonathan gave an invited talk at the 12th International Workshop on Advances in Audiology hosted by the University of Salamanca. His slides for the talk “Adaptation to Noise and Cortical Representation of Speech” are available on the lab’s Publications page.
— 1 June 2019
Brodbeck et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Christian’s article Transformation from Auditory to Linguistic Representations across Auditory Cortex is Rapid and Attention Dependent for Continuous Speech is now online at bioRxiv.
— 21 May 2018
Simon delivers invited talk at AESOP
Jonathan gave an invited talk at the Auditory EEG Signal Processing Symposium (AESoP) hosted by KU Leuven’s department ExpORL (Research Group Experimental Oto-rhino-laryngology). His slides for the talk “Recent Advances in Cortical Representations of Speech using MEG” are available on the lab’s Publications page.
— 21 May 2018
Miran et al. article accepted by Frontiers in Neuroscience
Sina Miran, from our partner lab of Behtash Babadi, just had his article Real-Time Tracking of Selective Auditory Attention from M/EEG: A Bayesian Filtering Approach accepted by Frontiers in Neuroscience, in the section Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications page. Update (1 May 2018): Now available in final form at Frontiers in Neuroscience.
— 5 April 2018
New DARPA Lagrange grant to study Optimality in Neural Signal Processing
Jonathan is Co-Investigator of a new DARPA grant, An Optimization-based Approach to Breaking the Neural Code. The grant, part of DARPA’s Lagrange Program, is led by PI Steven Marcus. Update (10 April 2018): More details are available in this Press Release.
— 3 April 2018
Brodbeck et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Christian’s article Increased Speech Representation in Older Adults Originates from Early Response in Higher Order Auditory Cortex is now online at bioRxiv.
— 3 April 2018
Vanthornhout et al. JARO article picked up by press
Jonas Vanthornhout’s article Speech Intelligibility Predicted from Neural Entrainment of the Speech Envelope was picked up by a number of news outlets (though none yet in English), including De Tijd and De Morgen. Update (14 March 2018): A few English-language outlets have also picked up the story (EurekAlert!, ScienceDaily, Medical Xpress, Digital Trends, Hearing Review). The article is available to read online, courtesy of the publisher.
— 28 February 2018
Cervantes Constantino & Simon article online at bioRxiv.org
Francisco’s article The Neural Representation of Missing Speech and the Influence of Prior Knowledge on Cortical Fidelity and Latency is now online at bioRxiv.
— 22 January 2018
Vanthornhout et al. article accepted by JARO
Jonas Vanthornhout’s article Speech Intelligibility Predicted from Neural Entrainment of the Speech Envelope was just accepted for publication at JARO (Journal of the Association of Research in Otolaryngology). Look for more details on the lab’s Publications page. This research was a collaboration with Jonas, Tom Francart, and other members of the ExpORL Group at KU Leuven. Update (21 February 2018): The article was just put online at the journal’s website.
— 19 January 2018
Brodbeck et al. article accepted by NeuroImage
Christian’s article Neural Source Dynamics of Brain Responses to Continuous Stimuli: Speech Processing from Acoustics to Comprehension was just accepted for publication at NeuroImage. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications page.
— 17 January 2018
Vanthornhout et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Jonas Vanthornhout’s article Speech Intelligibility Predicted from Neural Entrainment of the Speech Envelope is now online at bioRxiv. This research was a collaboration with Jonas, Tom Francart, and other members of the ExpORL Group at KU Leuven.
— 12 January 2018
Puvvada et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Krishna’s article Neural Coding of Noisy and Reverberant Speech in Human Auditory Cortex is now online at bioRxiv.
— 5 December 2017
Miran et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Sina Miran, from our partner lab of Behtash Babadi, just had his article Real-Time Tracking of Selective Auditory Attention from M/EEG: A Bayesian Filtering Approach put online at bioRxiv.
— 23 November 2017
Cervantes Constantino & Simon article accepted by Scientific Reports
Francisco’s article Dynamic Cortical Representations of Perceptual Filling-In for Missing Acoustic Rhythm was just accepted for publication at Scientific Reports. Look for more details soon on the lab’s Publications page, but until then the preprint is available at bioRxiv. Update (13 December 2017): Now available in final form at Scientific Reports.
— 21 November 2017
Jonathan Simon appears in NIH Peer Review Video
NIH’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR) recently put together a photo montage of NIH reviewers in action, so others “could get a close-up look at real reviewers,” including Jonathan. Images of NIH Peer Review 2017
— 16 November 2017
Presacco et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Alex’s article Representation of Speech in Noise in the Aging Midbrain and Cortex: Aging May Dominate Over Hearing-Loss is now online at bioRxiv.
— 31 October 2017
New NIH Program Project (P01) grant to study Plasticity in Auditory Aging
Jonathan is principle investigator of two components of a new National Institutes of Health grant, Neuroplasticity in Auditory Aging. The grant, funded by the National Institute of Aging, is led by PI Sandra Gordon-Salant. [ Announcement and News Story]
— 12 October 2017
Krishna Puvvada Successfully Defends Ph.D. Dissertation
Congratulations to Krishna, who defended his thesis Cortical Representation of Speech in Complex Auditory Environments and Applications, completing this important requirement of the Ph.D. program in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
— 6 September 2017
Brodbeck et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Christian’s article Neural Source Dynamics of Brain Responses to Continuous Stimuli: Speech Processing from Acoustics to Comprehension is now online at bioRxiv.
— 1 September 2017
Puvvada & Simon article accepted by Journal of Neuroscience
Krishna’s article Cortical Representations of Speech in a Multi-talker Auditory Scene was just accepted for publication at the Journal of Neuroscience. Look for more details soon on the lab’s Publications page, but until then the preprint is available at bioRxiv. Update: The article was just put online at the journal’s website: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0938-17.2017.
— 8 August 2017
New NSF grant to Simon and Babadi
Jonathan and collaborator Behtash Babadi were awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation, Extracting Functional Cortical Network Dynamics at High Spatiotemporal Resolution. The project was funded by NSF’s Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NSF-NCS), a multidisciplinary program jointly supported by the Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Education and Human Resources (EHR), Engineering (ENG), and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE).
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— 7 August 2017
Cervantes Constantino et al. article online at bioRxiv.org
Francisco’s article Functional Significance of Spectrotemporal Response Functions Obtained using Magnetoencephalography is now online at bioRxiv.
— 27 July 2017
Cervantes Constantino & Simon article online at bioRxiv.org
Francisco’s article Dynamic Cortical Representations of Perceptual Filling-In for Missing Acoustic Rhythm is now online at bioRxiv.
— 18 July 2017
Francisco Cervantes Constantino speaks at Acoustical Society meeting
Francisco’s podium presentation was on Neural Representations of Restored Acoustic Rhythm in Noise. See the slides at the Presentations section of the lab’s Publications page, or read the abstract at JASA.
— 28 June 2017
Puvvada et al. article now available online at Schizophrenia Bulletin
Krishna Puvvada’s article Delta Vs Gamma Auditory Steady State Synchrony in Schizophrenia was just put online at the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin. Look for more details on the lab’s Publications page. Update (22 February 2018): The final version of the article was just released.
— 20 June 2017
Jonathan Simon gives KITP Blackboard Lunch
Jonathan gave a prestigious [sic] blackboard lunch talk at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), titled Why Would a Theoretical Physicist Study the Auditory Brain?.
— 6 June 2017
Puvvada et al. article accepted by Schizophrenia Bulletin
Krishna Puvvada’s article Delta Vs Gamma Auditory Steady State Synchrony in Schizophrenia was just accepted for publication at the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin. Look for more details soon on the lab’s Publications page.
— 19 May 2017
Francisco Cervantes Constantino Successfully Defends Ph.D. Dissertation
Congratulations to Francisco, who defended his thesis Sensory and Perceptual Codes in Cortical Auditory Processing, completing this important requirement of the Ph.D. program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.
— 18 May 2017
Mahshid Najafi Successfully Defends Ph.D. Dissertation
Congratulations to Mahshid, who defended her thesis Spatial and Temporal Modeling of Large-Scale Brain Networks, completing this important requirement of the Ph.D. program in Electrical & Computer Engineering. The work covered in her thesis is also available as two papers, one in NeuroImage, and one on bioRXiv.
— 10 May 2017
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month
To raise awareness about communication disorders, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) has joined the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in observing Better Hearing and Speech Month each May. Approximately 46 million Americans experience some form of communication disorder. Communication disorders can compromise physical and emotional health and affect the social, educational, vocational, and recreational aspects of life.
— 9 May 2017
Lab preprints now available at bioRxiv
bioRxiv, a preprint server for the life sciences, makes it easy to distribute preprints in a way that allows easy citation and establishment of scientific priority. bioRxiv also recently teamed up with a number of journals to allow direct article submission (including the Journal of Neurophysiology, the Journal of Neuroscience, eLife, and PNAS). As a result, we’ve decided to incorporate the uploading of preprints into our standard, pre-submission pipeline, including utilizing public comments to improve article quality. Our first paper there was uploaded last week (and already revised!): Krishna Puvvada’s Cortical Representations of Speech in a Multi-talker Auditory Scene, bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/124750.
— 11 April 2017
Jonathan Simon is co-editor of a new book, The Auditory System at the Cocktail Party, the latest volume in the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research series
The Auditory System at the Cocktail Party is the 60th volume in the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research series, edited by John Middlebrooks, Jonathan Simon, Arthur Popper, and Richard Fay. It is available now in PDF form, and soon in hardcover. Simon also has a chapter in the volume, Human Auditory Neuroscience and the Cocktail Party Problem.
— 29 March 2017
Christian Brodbeck has two articles published, in NeuroImage and eNeuro
Christian Brodbeck had two articles published just before the holidays, from his graduate work with Liina Pylkkänen: Language in context: MEG evidence for modality general and specific responses to reference resolution, in the SfN open access journal eNeuro, and Language in context: Characterizing the comprehension of referential expressions with MEG, in NeuroImage.
— 3 January 2017
Presacco et al. Journal of Neurophysiology article featured at NSF
Alex Presacco’s article Evidence of Degraded Representation of Speech in Noise, in the Aging Midbrain and Cortex was featured in a new National Science Foundation video, part of its “NSF Science Now” series.
— 9 December 2016
Presacco et al. Journal of Neurophysiology article: The Podcast
Alex Presacco’s article Evidence of Degraded Representation of Speech in Noise, in the Aging Midbrain and Cortex was discussed on the Journal of Neurophysiology’s podcast.
— 8 November 2016
Presacco et al. Journal of Neurophysiology article picked up by press again
Alex Presacco’s article Evidence of Degraded Representation of Speech in Noise, in the Aging Midbrain and Cortex was picked up by a number of news outlets, including The Times, the Daily Mail, and the Express, and by other media sources including UMD Right Now, Fast Company, Science Daily, and Eureka Alert.
Also, Jonathan Simon was interviewed live on BBC Radio 4 on the PM programme.
— 20 October 2016
Presacco et al. Journal of Neurophysiology article highlighted as one of the month’s “best of the best” in American Physiological Society’s APSselect
Alex Presacco’s article Evidence of Degraded Representation of Speech in Noise, in the Aging Midbrain and Cortex was highlighted by the American Physiological Society’s APSselect program from all the society’s fourteen journals as one of nine “best of the best” articles of October 2016. The article was picked up by a number of media sources, including UPI, MSN Video, US News & World Report, Science Daily, WebMD, Neuroscience News, and the American Physiological Society.
— 12 October 2016
Jonathan Simon delivers three invited lectures in China
Simon gave invited lectures at Peking University’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research (Beijing); NYU Shanghai and East China Normal University’s joint Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science (Shanghai); and Zhejiang University’s College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Sciences (Hangzhou). His slides are available on the lab’s Publications page.
— 29 September 2016
Another Presacco et al. article accepted by Journal of Neurophysiology
Alex Presacco’s article Effect of Informational Content of Noise on Speech Representation in the Aging Midbrain and Cortex, a companion article to his most recently accepted article, was just accepted for publication at the Journal of Neurophysiology. Look for more details soon on the lab’s Publications page.
— 7 September 2016
Presacco et al. article accepted by Journal of Neurophysiology
Alex Presacco’s article Evidence of Degraded Representation of Speech in Noise, in the Aging Midbrain and Cortex was just accepted for publication at the Journal of Neurophysiology. Look for more details soon on the lab’s Publications page.
— 12 August 2016