This is useful for real-world applications of voice familiarisation, which may be particularly appealing to older adults who find it difficult to understand speech in noisy places. Check out the full paper here: bit.ly/4oeDPFG [5/5]
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We found that both groups found trained voices more intelligible than unfamiliar voices. Therefore, these findings show that older adults can learn new voices as effectively as younger participants. [4/5]
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In addition, we've previously shown that we can train new voices in the lab to become familiar and produce this intelligibility benefit for newly trained voices. In our new study, we compared groups of older (55–73 years) and younger (18–34 years) participants. [3/5]
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Previous research has shown that speech is more intelligible when it is spoken by someone familiar (e.g., a friend or family member), compared with someone unfamiliar. [2/5]
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New paper alert: "Computer-based voice familiarization, delivered remotely using an online platform, improves speech intelligibility for older and younger adults" bit.ly/4oeDPFG [see thread: 1/5] @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @apajournals.bsky.social
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Congrats Han! 🎉
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Closing tomorrow! Apply for my fully-funded PhD studentship, open to UK students
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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
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Less than 2 weeks left to apply for my open PhD position!
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Divisional Vacancies
Job Vacancies in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
New *Funded PhD opportunity* for UK students to work with me at UCL (London), researching auditory training interventions to improve speech understanding in noisy environments. Deadline 28th April. Full details and job description: bit.ly/4ccbbzj @uclpals.bsky.social [please share]
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Reads: Transforming our understanding of the brain Brain Awareness Week #UCLBrainSciences
Today marks the start of #BrainAwarenessWeek, a global celebration of the incredible advancements and benefits of brain research. Stay tuned all week as we explore the latest cutting-edge work from the brilliant minds across our Faculty. #UCLBrainSciences buff.ly/4i3aA5M
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Finally made the move to BlueSky
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Lecturer in Neuroscience at UCL • Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Brunel University London • Neuroimaging markers in #FTD
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Cognitive Neuroscientist fascinated by the brain, speech and hearing, and mental health.
Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, School of Psychology and Neuroscience. Focussed on the scholarship of teaching and learning around statistics, data skills, research methods, and assessment and feedback. Dable in voice perception.
Senior Research Fellow, Acoustics Research Group, University of Salford. Speech acoustics/tech/security/privacy/DSP, psychoacoustics hearing aids, EDI. Early Career SIG and EDI lead in the UK Acoustics Network. Co-investigator in #CDTSoundFutures
Bring together happenings at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence #NeuroAI
SNSF Ambizione Reseach Group Leader @ISLE @University of Zurich
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
Neuromodulation & Speech, Attention & Hearing, Aphasia & Gestures
https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/ENL/ambizione-preisig.html
I am a scientist specializing in phenomena around communication with speech and voice.
Auditory neuroscientist, ultra-high field MRI, associate professor at Maastricht University
🇨🇦🇵🇭 || Graduate Student || Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience || UofT & Rotman Research
Professor of Psychology @ UNLV. Associate Editor for @jephpp.bsky.social. Researching #Music/ #Auditory Cognition since the last century. Helped found UNLV's Neuroscience Ph.D. program and served as director until July 2022.
Learned Society based in the UK.
We organise three scientific meetings + four funding rounds per year.
More information on our website - https://eps.ac.uk/
Associate Professor in Psychology. Tries to study consciousness.
Postdoc in the Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS) department @ UCL
Interested in hearing, speech perception and brains 🧠👂💬
Science (cochlear implants, auditory and speech perception), dogs, reading, troublemaking
CNRS researcher at École normale supérieure Paris. Auditory perception, psycholinguistics, hearing loss.
Mastodon: @LeoVarnet@fediscience.org
Auditory neuroscientist, mom, saber fencer, oboe / English horn player. Views my own.
cognitive neuroscientist, interested in human timing & time perception, neural oscillations, mother²
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Post-doctoral research fellow in cognitive neuroscience (Oxford), interested in complex systems and in simple systems who believe they are complex systems
Maastricht University. Predictive processing, learning/memory, cognitive computational neuroscience. He / him / all pronouns 🏳️🌈
