Auditory Neuroscience Lab

Are high perceptual precision demands always necessary for training to drive auditory neural plasticity? 🧠 🔊🎙️ Find out more in this cool study with voice actors https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.06.016 by Magdalena Kachlicka & Adam Tierney Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck, University of London 🧵1/6

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Our brains have an internal GPS that guides us through physical space. But does it do more than that? A recent preprint from the lab shows that the brain’s navigation system also maps sound 🧠 🌎 🔉 Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.04.636440 🧵1/4

alert!🚨Can experience with the statistical regularities of speech and music increase the salience of informative dimensions within a given domain? Check https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d4u93 by Ashley Symons and team (Magdalena Kachlicka, Raha Razin, Emily Wright, Fred Dick & Adam Tierney) 🧵1/5

Dimensional salience varies across verbal and nonverbal domains Information in speech and music is conveyed via multiple auditory dimensions. The informativeness of these dimensions tends to vary across domains, with pitch typically more informative for extracting musical content, and durational cues for exacting linguistic content in English speech. Some theori...