Thursday 16/11 at 4:00 pm 🔊🧠🎶 Join us as Prof Adam Tierney gives a talk at SHaPS about "Perception of ambiguous sounds reveals the diversity of human perception" For info on how to join see: ucl.ac.uk/pals/events/20…

🎉🎉Huge congratulations to Adam Tierney for being conferred as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience! Birkbeck, Faculty of Science Prof Tierney's research in the School focuses on perception, attention and language acquision. Read more about his work at the ALPHA lab: alphalab-london.com

On this day in 1823 the London Mechanics’ Institute, which later went on to become Birkbeck University, was founded. Happy 200th Anniversary Birkbeck. Changing lives since 2 December 1823. Read more: bit.ly/3N68NyT #Birkbeck200

Missed SNL Annual Meeting in Marseille? Check #conferenceposter 1/2 presented by @aesymons dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.… 👂🔊🧑‍🎤Can distracting sounds or dynamic changes in natural speech capture listeners' attention and affect their behaviour? It seems so! 🧵1/5

Here's the 2nd #conferenceposter from our lab presented at SNL Annual Meeting by Magdalena Kachlicka @mkachlicka.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.… What factors determine the importance placed on different sources of evidence during speech and music perception? 🧵1/5

Our lab's ⏰ new paper ⏰ by Katya Petrova, Kyle Jasmin Kazuya Saito Adam Tierney doi.org/10.1037/xlm000… examined how length of residence in an L2 environment modifies perceptual strategies for suprasegmental categorization 🧵 1/4

#preprint alert!🚨Can experience with the statistical regularities of speech and music increase the salience of informative dimensions within a given domain? Check doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… by @aesymons and team Magdalena Kachlicka @mkachlicka.bsky.social Raha Razin, Emily Wright, Fred Dick Adam Tierney 🧵1/5

Is listening performance bound to the specific characteristics of musical instrument training or other types of auditory expertise? Check doi.org/10.1016/j.cogn… led by Francesco Caprini with Sijia Zhao Maria Chait (she/her) Trevor Angus, Urlich Pomper, Fred Dick, and Adam Tierney 🧵1/5

⏰New paper⏰Kazuya Saito & team Magdalena Kachlicka @mkachlicka.bsky.social Yui Suzukida Ingrid Mora-Plaza YaoyaoRuan Adam Tierney ask whether and to what degree the composite model of acuity, attention, and integration can increase the predictive power of auditory processing for L2 learning doi.org/10.1037/xhp000… 🧵1/5

hello? is anyone still on here? if so, check out a fun project I did with dr. iliza butera and team on the speech-to-song illusion in cochlear implant users! #musicscience tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Tone-language and non-tone-language speakers show several similarities in an auditory illusion where certain spoken phrases, when looped, start to sound like singing, suggesting consistencies in how human minds distinguish speech and song sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 Exciting news! Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences is looking for 2 T&R Lecturers to join our School. We're particularly keen on expertise in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational modelling. 🧠 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lectur… Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to know more!

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - our neuroscience team led by Magdalena Kachlicka @mkachlicka.bsky.social looking for second language speakers based in London!

Our "Many Voices" 75-author collaboration led by Yuto Ozaki finding global regularities in music-speech relationships is now out on the cover of Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Full video of 18 coauthors singing/speaking in our own languages at youtu.be/a4eNNrdcfDM

How do we distinguish between music & speech? Using judgments on artificial ambiguous noise clips, Andrew Chang David Poeppel &co show that our #auditory system relies on basic acoustic parameters like amplitude modulation rates & regularities #PLOSBiology plos.io/4e2guBO

⏰CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS⏰ We're looking for London-based #participants who would like to take part in an fMRI study and gain insight into how our brains process second language speech 🧠🧠🧠 #auditory #neuroscience Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London BirkbeckPsychosocial Please share!

New preprint up describing our planned #RegisteredReport Stage 1 protocol building on ManyVoices 1. In Many Voices 2, we aim to collect data from 1,500 people around the world singing/speaking in groups to directly test the social bonding hypothesis doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

⏰CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS⏰ I'm looking for London-based #participants who would like to take part in an fMRI study and gain insight into how our brains process second language speech 🧠🧠🧠#auditory #neuroscience Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London BirkbeckPsychosocial Please share!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Magdalena Kachlicka, Adam T. Tierney, et al: Tone language experience enhances dimension-selective attention and subcortical encoding but not cortical entrainment to pitch doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

What factors determine the importance placed on different sources of evidence during speech and music perception?🧠💬👂🎶 New research by Magdalena Kachlicka @mkachlicka.bsky.social @aesymons Kazuya Saito Fred Dick Adam Tierney doi.org/10.1162/imag_a… #auditory #neuroscience Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences Imaging Neuroscience 🧵1/4