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Just one week to go until the #RotmanConf! Don't miss this chance to learn about the latest breakthroughs in Sensory & Cognitive Interactions in the Aging Brain. Registration & details: event.fourwaves.com/rotmanconf

Dip-listening (masking release) is often reduced in older adults. We find this is the case only for disconnected sentences. Older adults benefit as much from dip-listening when listening to engaging stories. To appear in Sci Rep (V.Irsik Ingrid Johnsrude): psyarxiv.com/t7xf3/

Awesome news from the Auditory Aging team. Our Fran Copelli was awarded a 2022 CGS-M Canadian Graduate Scholarship award from CIHR to work on neural markers of naturalistic speech. Thanks also to Rotman Research University of Toronto. We are look forward to seeing results of this research.

Job alert! Join Rotman Research in Toronto, Canada, as the new executive director: tinyurl.com/47u2dxd We are a great team of scientists + amazing opportunities at the RRI to push forward research on the aging brain. Feel free to get in touch for more infos.

We are happy to see this one explore the world. We find age-related changes in alpha oscillatory activity during dynamic attention in time under listening challenges (with Molly Henry, Burkhard Maess @[email protected], Jonas Obleser, Ingrid Johnsrude). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Newest lab work: Exploring whether modern AI-based synthesized speech may be useful for hearing research; common speech-in-noise perception phenomena are similar for AI vs human speech; and older adults notice substantially less the presence of AI speech. psyarxiv.com/umy6f

I think it's pretty cool when hearing aids get mentioned in a #SOTU address: "Millions of Americans can now save thousands of dollars because they can finally get hearing aids over-the-counter without a prescription." Hear, hear!!

New lab work ready biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… with Eric Cui & Björn Herrmann We show that eye movements decrease during effortful listening. We demonstrate this for sentences and spoken stories as well as under different visual conditions (fixation, free viewing, object tracking).

@obleserlab PhD candidate Frauke Kraus is in press in The Journal of Neuroscience SfN Journals , with her findings on alpha vs. pupil indexing cognitive demand (preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) Sarah Tune Björn Herrmann Auditory Aging Universität Lübeck @CBBM20 funded by DFG public | @[email protected]

Seeking POSTDOC in auditory cognition & fMRI Auditory Aging Rotman Research: tinyurl.com/3pkycpx5 (#hearing #cognition #auditory), please retweet. ARO Society for Neuroscience (SfN) APAN Canadian Black Scientists Network Black In Neuro 🧠 #LGBTSTEM #WomenInSTEM #indigenousSTEM #disabledInSTEM

New lab work: In this study we show that natural language processing models (from Google and OpenAI) can be used to automate speech-intelligibility scoring. Intelligibility from human and NLP scoring correlate 0.95. Python code is provided. psyarxiv.com/h9mna

The Canadian Science Policy Center's Science Meets Parliament program is bridging the gap between scientists and parliamentarians. This program is a game-changer, empowering scientists to actively contribute to evidence-based decision-making: discover.bme.utoronto.ca/science-meets-… Tony Van Bynen

Interested in graduate studies at @uoft and the Rotman Research in the hearing and aging space? please get in touch with Björn Herrmann. We are looking for two graduate students, one in the brain health space and one in the social health space. We would love hearing from you!

New work from the lab on PsyArXiv. We show that older adults recognize less well modern AI-based speech. This seems to be unrelated to hearing loss, but rather to the processing of prosodic information in speech: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Our Auditory Aging lab Rotman Research is hiring a new postdoc in memory, hearing, and fMRI for projects on naturalistic listening. Come join an amazing research community in Toronto. Please retweet. ARO Society for Neuroscience (SfN) APAN CNS News. tinyurl.com/yxwd586b

Interested in automated scoring of speech recall across languages? Check out this new preprint. arxiv.org/abs/2503.01045 Possibly helping the hearing sciences to use more naturalistic speech materials to assess comprehension.