Brandon T. Paul | Cognitive Hearing Lab @ TMU

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers.

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.

I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.

www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

The Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring again -- this time a TT position in Child Clinical Psychology. Deadline is October 3rd. See details in the link -- hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/... Please share widely!

TMU Psych is hiring a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Mental Health. This is for full professor rank, provides $1,000,000 CAD per year for the term (inclusive of salary, benefits, and research expenses). Deadline is August 15, 2025. hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/...

I corresponded with him most recently in March when I shared news of my newborn son. I'm enormously thankful for the time he gave me I will greatly miss him.

Those that knew David well or studied with him can appreciate how unbelievably lucky an undergrad would be to work with him. It was an incredible privilege to have that foundation. He remains the wisest scholar I have ever met and every chat with him was enlightening.

David Huron Obituary (1954 - 2025) - Legacy Remembers View David Brian Huron's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

Like many I was very sad to learn that David Huron passed away. David was my very first mentor/project supervisor when I was an undergraduate at Ohio State and he was responsible for my transition from music into research. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Auditory Neuroplasticity with Dr. Brandon Paul - Hearing Matters Podcast Dr. Douglas Beck sits down with Dr. Brandon Paul to unravel the fascinating world of auditory neuroplasticity and its profound implications for hearing health. Dr. Paul shares cutting-edge research on...

I had a great time chatting about neuroplasticity and hearing loss with Dr. Doug Beck on the Hearing Matters Podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/421432/episo...

Comparison of subjective self-reported hearing and objective speech-in-noise perception as predictors of social isolation and loneliness in adults 60 years and older Hearing decline in ageing increases the risk of loneliness and social isolation. This correlation is most often observed when hearing is measured by subjective self-report, and less often for objec...

Last is a recently published paper stemming from an undergrad thesis by Rayna Adachi, looking at differences in subjective and objective measures of hearing when predicting loneliness and social isolation. A bit different from the lab's typical fare.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Next up is a preprint looking at visual plasticity in age-related hearing loss using EEG. Takeaway is separate aging and hearing loss effects on visual evoked potentials, and there are differences between speech-like and non-speech stimuli.

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Speech outcomes in cochlear implant users depend on visual cross-modal cortical activity measured before or after implantation Paul et al. report that ‘cross-modal’ visual brain responses measured from auditory cortex correlate to speech perception scores in cochlear implant users.

A few updates from the lab / collaborations -- first up is visual cross-modal plasticity in CI users and speech outcomes, with Sunnybrook Hospital. Takeaway is longitudinal studies are needed to track visual plasticity in CI users over time.

doi.org/10.1093/brai...

Speech outcomes in cochlear implant users depend on visual cross-modal cortical activity measured before or after implantation Paul et al. report that ‘cross-modal’ visual brain responses measured from auditory cortex correlate to speech perception scores in cochlear implant users.

Speech outcomes in cochlear implant users depend on visual cross-modal cortical activity measured before or after implantation academic.oup.com/braincomms/a... Measured visual x-modal activity in a silent lip reading task using EEG in a cross-sectional, observational study- needed a pre- post- study

Perceptions of older and younger adults who wear hearing aids To investigate older and younger adults’ perceptions of older and younger adults who wear hearing aids.Participants completed two Implicit Association Tests: One with images of older adults (OA-IAT...

Sharing a recent publication from our research group, investigating implicit associations regarding AGE and HEARING LOSS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

BLACK WOMEN IN #STEM

i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! 🧪

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Re-posting this in light of all the new activity on this platform! Please share widely. 🧠📈 #EEG
🧠🤖 #consci

I feel that the auditory research community has either not arrived here yet or is not very well connected. Please let me know who to add to this starter pack and self-nominate. 🧪
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This is great, I'd also like to self-nominate. Thanks for putting this together.

This is one of my favourite accounts -- very glad you're on bluesky!

Happy Friday! If you're gearing up for a tricouncil scholarship application this fall, feel free to check out these guides that contain some (hopefully) helpful tips.

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I'm looking for material to seed a "how to study" curriculum for undergraduates in neuroscience. Especially material that helps them wrap their heads around problem solving and generalization (not just memorization). Any leads?

#neuroscience