Limited X-modal activation to visual language in the auditory cortices of hearing-impaired children www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Visual silent speech failed to elicit reliable hemodynamic activation in HI children ... experience with sign language modulated auditory speech processing
The role of attention to the mouth of talking faces for vocabulary skills during toddlerhood: Does language familiarity still matter? academic.oup.com/chidev/advan... Investigated if toddlers' attention to a talking face's mouth ⬆️across the 2nd year &if language familiarity is the driver
📚 Citation Classic
"Categorical perception: real or myth? Or a bad question."
Liberman et al; McMurray (1957;2022)
Citations: 2641;113+
CP is an empirical phenomenon and a theoret...
🔗 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9803395
#SpeechScience
Why conversation is more like a dance than an exchange of words www.mpi.nl/news/why-con...
Altered Selective Attention or Increased Imagination: Effects of Eye Closure on Vocal Expression Perception pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... Which is it? H1: Eye Closure enhances selective attention to task-related cues while suppressing prosodic processing OR H2: EC activates compensatory imagination
Phonological, Speechreading, and Visual–Orthographic Processing Skills of Chinese Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... Study examined the characteristics of speechreading as well as phonological & visual–orthographic processing skills in Chinese reading among DHH children
Colin Cherry (1953) described how we can focus on one conversation in a noisy room full of people talking. This launched decades of research into selective attention and speech perception.
🎧 Cherry (1953) - foundational auditory perception study
#SpeechScience #Perception
Multivariate Analyses of Tongue Contours from Ultrasound Tongue Imaging journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Tutorial introduces two approaches to modeling tongue contour data: Multivariate generalized additive models; multivariate functional principal component analysis - recommends MFPCA over MGAM
Musical ability and emotion recognition in speech prosody: The role of pitch discrimination link.springer.com/article/10.3... "Why does musical expertise predict enhanced emotion recognition in speech prosody? ...music training is an artifactual correlate of prosodic emotion recognition" 😮
Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research!
Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...
Um, Figure 4 - comparison of the Conventional mTRF and Optimized mTRF - The Y-axis Scales!! Convention 10^-2 and Optimized 10^-3, huh?
Optimizing the multivariate temporal response function(mTRF) framework for better identification of neural responses to partially dependent speech variables
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.25.707435v1
Do you miss Sydney? 😉
A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis of the McGurk Effect in Older and Younger Adult pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1... "However, given the limited number of studies included in this meta-analysis, the conclusion remains preliminary and should be interpreted with caution"
"static to c..." oh, the mystery 😉
📚 Citation Classic
"Articulatory Phonology"
Browman & Goldstein (1992)
Citations: 2993+
Dynamic gestural approach. Paradigm shift from static to c...
🔗 https://sail.usc.edu/~lgoldste/General_Phonetics/Week3/Browman_Goldstein_1992.pdf
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An ancient dog breed regulates pitch when howling with music www.cell.com/current-biol... Yeah, well some things one just has to post
: )
"Did our ability to coordinate pitch in a group emerge as a byproduct of complex vocal learning or earlier because of its adaptive value?" 💬🐕
Postdoctoral Fellow in Brain Plasticity (Blindness/Deafness)
Sensory & Motor Plasticity Lab, Georgetown University. The Lab (PI: Ella Striem-Amit) looks at how experience shapes brain organization in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands >beh & comp & fMRI apply.interfolio.com/177838
Speech and Gesture in Sync: Investigating Temporal Integration Across Childhood pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41732054/ (DOI doesn't resolve yet) - X-sectional study measured the speech-gesture production system in childhood. Adults N=35;& kids, N = 68 described use household objects using gestures
Bilingual language processing relies on shared semantic representations that are modulated by each language www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... fMRI with participants reading hours of natural narratives in their native & non-native languages then compared semantic representations between the two languages
The dual-task costs of audiovisual benefit: Effects of noise and “native” speaker status link.springer.com/article/10.3... More dual-task AV speech research from Brown and Strand - & 7 others : )
I'm not going to think to long about just what "Brisbane-flavour" actually is 😆
Inverted encoding of neural responses to AV stimuli reveals super-additive multisensory enhancement elifesciences.org/articles/97230 What's the deal with EEG based AV super &/or sub-additive effects? Do standard univariate analyses simply obscure multisensory interactions? Enter inverted encoding 😲
Science has now published our eLetter responding to Rajendran et al., titled, “Data show that macaques do not synchronize to a beat”
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Associations between symptom severity in autism and functional neuroimaging measures of audiovisual speech perception www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Higher autism symptom severity predicts reduced benefit from visual speech cues; relates to AV but not auditory alone; ⬇️ cortical language areas
Had to smile at the "VODER" clip
In 1939, Bell Labs unveiled the Voder at the New York World's Fair - the first electronic speech synthesizer operated by a human using a keyboard and foot pedals. Audiences were amazed to hear a machine 'speak'!
🎪 See it in action: youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0
#SpeechScience #Technology
🧵 New paper to appear in The Handbook of Linguistics and Multimodality: “Communicating from head to toe”, with @acwiek.bsky.social and @susfuchs.bsky.social 🥰 We review evidence that language is fundamentally physical, shaped by anatomy and biomechanics from your skull to your soles. 🗣️🦵 [1/6]
The GaMMA corpus of Danish polyadic conversations with gaze speech and motion data in quiet and noise
www.nature.com/articles/s41... corpus captures polyadic conversations of native Danish speakers quiet & cocktail party conditions-> 11 groups of 4 normal-hearing people data doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Precision of Tongue Control for Task-Relevant Articulatory Goals Diminishes Without Real-Time Auditory Feedback pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... VCV production with masked feedback ...seems like masking feedback degrades the precision of articulatory control - at least tongue-tip & jaw movements
