blog reel

  • New preprint: The brain separates auditory and visual “meanings” of words

    In our new preprint, we tried to figure out whether word meanings are “the same” in the brain, whether we hear a spoken word or lip read the same word by watching a speaker’s face. To answer this, participants did the same task in two conditions: auditory and visual. In the auditory condition, they heard Read more

  • Flicker-driven brain waves and alpha rhythms – revisited

    Flicker-driven brain waves and alpha rhythms – revisited

    In our recent study we asked how waves that the brain produces by itself – alpha rhythms – relate to waves triggered by viewing a flickering screen. Both can be of similar frequency (~10Hz, or ten cycles per second) and are easily recorded from the scalp with electrodes (EEG). To recap, we did not find Read more

  • CNS 2019 – Posters

    We will be presenting our works at Poster Session F, Tue (26 Mar), 8-10am, at the 2019 CNS meeting in San Francisco. Go see Anne for Auditory and visual speech perception is predicted by distinct cortical encoding networks [F60]: And stop by at [F130] for Christian’s Spontaneous fluctuations of pupil size and brain rhythms co-vary Read more

  • Alpha rhythms: Some slow down, some grow stronger

    Alpha rhythms: Some slow down, some grow stronger

    Researchers usually assume alpha brain waves to behave relatively similarly over time. In a new study, led by Chris Benwell and just accepted for publication in NeuroImage, we find that this is not necessarily true for the 1-2 hrs that a typical EEG experiment lasts. In a re-analysis of data from two previous EEG experiments Read more

  • Anne to join University of Dundee Psychology

    Anne to join University of Dundee Psychology

    [1 Jan 2019] Anne has taken up a position of Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Dundee. With the beginning of January 2019 she joins the staff at the Psychology Division at the school of Social Sciences. There, she will continue her research into auditory cognition, with a focus on language and speech perception Read more

  • Flicker-driven brain waves and alpha rhythms

    [17 Feb 2019] Our manuscript Stimulus-driven brain rhythms within the alpha band: The attentional-modulation conundrum has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience. We show that stimulus-driven and intrinsic brain rhythms in the ~10 Hz range (alpha) can be functionally segregated. Briefly put, while one goes up the other one goes down. Read more