blog reel

  • Anne wins Biomag 2018 Young Investigator Award

    [28 Aug 2018] Anne has been one of three Early Career Researchers rewarded with a BIOMAG Young Investigator Award at the 2018 International Conference on Biomagnetism, held in Philadelphia, USA. Nominated as one of 10 finalists she won the award for a presentation of her recent work into the neural foundations of speech comprehension [1].… Read more

  • New preprint on speech tracking in auditory and motor cortices

    The tracking of temporal information in speech is frequently used to study speech encoding in dynamic brain activity. Often, studies use traditional, generic frequency bands in their analysis (for example delta [1 – 4 Hz] or theta [4 – 8 Hz] bands). However, there are large inter-individual differences in speech rate. For example, audiobooks are… Read more

  • First WoRB – Workshop on Rhythms in the Brain – concluded

    Last week the first Workshop on Rhythms in the Brain – WoRB – took place here in Glasgow, at the Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology. The organisers thank our speakers Satu Palva, Ayelet Landau, Hartwig Siebner & Niko Busch for their inspiring talks, great discussions and joining our hike up Conic Hill. Also thanks to… Read more

  • Accepted paper: Spontaneous and deterministic fluctuations of pre-stimulus alpha power govern biases in visual line bisection

    Chris Benwell’s most recent study shows that an observer’s brain state, just before seeing a transected line, influences their judgment of its centre. Also, these critical brain states do not seem to fluctuate randomly from instant to instant, but trend systematically over time. Brain states can be defined by rhythmic activity in characteristic frequency bands.… Read more

  • WoRB – Workshop on Rhythms in the Brain – ready to go

    Proudly we announce the first Workshop on Rhythms in the Brain (WoRB) held in Glasgow on Monday, 11 Sep 2017. WoRB sets the stage for four leading experts – Satu Palva, Ayelet Landau, Hartwig Siebner & Niko Busch – show-casing and discussing their state-of-the-art research in this intense half-day programme. WoRB aims to gather a… Read more

  • Accepted paper on audio-visual synchrony and spatial attention

    In this project, spearheaded by first author Amra Covic, we investigated the interplay of synchronised audio-visual (AV) stimuli and paying attention to their location. AV stimuli typically have a processing advantage over unisensory stimuli. Current accounts ascribe this advantage to a secondary process, an automatic attraction of attention. We were thus surprised to find that… Read more