New preprint: Cloned voices are easier to understand in noise than their human originals: the voice cloning intelligibility benefit (with @hwanguc.bsky.social)

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NEW PAPER ALERT! In a dual-task-fMRI paradigm, we used machine learning (XGBoost) as a robust and explainable approach to revealing the dissociable task effects on activation patterns for noise-vocoded speech processing in a set of frontotemporal regions that were hidden by inferential statistics🧠😆.

Check out our lab's NEW paper, now available: "Neural Processing of Noise-Vocoded Speech Under Divided Attention: An fMRI-Machine Learning Study" #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @hwanguc.bsky.social @rongruc.bsky.social

Han, it was privilege to supervise you, a joy see you graduate and very nice to meet your parent.

What a joyful day to wrap up four and a half amazing years at UCL!
Huge thanks to my brilliant supervisor @pattiadank.bsky.social, the Speech on the Brain Lab, and everyone who’s been part of the ride🤩
UCL has always been—and will always be—a meaningful part of me😝

Exposure to vibrotactile music improves audiometric performances in individuals with cochlear implants - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Exposure to vibrotactile music improves audiometric performances in individuals with cochlear implants

I like this, vibrotactile cross-modal processing in cochlear implant users: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Closing tomorrow! Apply for my fully-funded PhD studentship, open to UK students

Contact @rongruc.bsky.social
📣Participants Needed
🔍 A fun brain stimulation study using tDCS to explore how we process distorted speech.
👂 2 short lab visits (3h total) = £35
📍 UCL Chandler House (WC1N 1PF)
See poster below!
#UCL #BrainResearch #BrainStimulation #PaidStudy #tDCS #CognitiveScience

Deadline extended for my fully-funded #PhD position - apply by 7th May! Come and work with me & join the UCL Cognitive Hearing Lab: bit.ly/3RAEYZ8 The studentship is funded by RNID and will help make noisy environments easier for people with hearing loss

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
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Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: A dual task study Listeners can adapt to noise-vocoded speech under divided attention using a dual task design [Wang, Chen, Yan, McGettigan, Rosen, and Adank, Trends Hear. 27, 23

Available at doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Congratulations to Dr Hannah Wilt for passing her PhD viva last week with NO CORRECTIONS. Thanks also to the examiners @salonikrishnan.bsky.social and @gambichiara.bsky.social for making this a great day!

Paper accepted:
"Automatic imitation of vocal actions is unaffected by group membership",
- to be published in Psychological Research,
- with Hannah Wilt and Tony Trotter

SHaPS People

I suggest everyone visits our webpage and looks at how beautiful we all are thanks to @carignan.bsky.social 's amazing photography skills ;-) www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...

New paper accepted with Han Wang, Taylor Hepworth, and Stephanie Borrie, in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America:

"Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: a dual-task study"

Open letter to Sir Patrick Vallance To sign the letter, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/eRydV6VpMQVFPtdF7 Please forward a link to this letter to any colleagues who you think may be interested in signing – we would li...

MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Preprint!

Exciting new prepping from my department: Voice deep fakes sound realistic but not (yet) hyperrealistic osf.io/preprints/ps...

Here's Moxie! He is the most beautiful boy, could you add me?

SHaPS People

We have funded PhD studentships available in Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS) at UCL for UK students only, please contact a potential supervisor in SHaPS to agree on a PhD project first: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...

could you add me too?

I made the leap as well from the platform not to be named, and I should have done so months ago! Here's a picture of Moxie just because #whippets

Language and Cognition | Department of Psychological Sciences The language and cognition concentration examines neurobiological mechanisms in speech perception, reading, sentence processing, semantic memory, and more.

With Bluesky a-hoppin', now's a good time to advertise that faculty (inc. me!) at UConn (both in Language and Cognition and Speech and Hearing) are recruiting PhD students. Fantastic Lang. Sci. community, some cool training grants. psychology.uconn.edu/phd/language...

I would not mind being added!

Dissecting the causal role of early inferior frontal activation in reading www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Does the left pIFC specifically & causally mediate rapid computation of speech motor codes at the earliest stage of reading? Used TMS to investigate

It's a great collection, thanks so much to @olivergenschow.bsky.social and @craccoemiel.bsky.social for all their hard work to pull this together!

Follow the editors! @olivergenschow.bsky.social @craccoemiel.bsky.social