Auditory Cognition Group

Many congratulations to Dr Meher Lad @BrainLad on winning the Newcastle University Medical Sciences Doctoral Thesis Prize!! 🎉🎉

@charl_marshall @BrainLad Congratulations to Dr Lad!!🥳🥳

Privileged to examine a great PhD from @BrainLad @AuditoryGroup Many congratulations Dr Dr Lad! 🥳🥳

On the same topic, a new episode has just been released: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Professor Tim Griffiths talks about musical hallucinations🎶🧠👂 on BBC Radio 4 'All in the Mind'. Listen here for interesting clinical cases and more! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…

Could hearing aids protect some people against developing dementia? New Washington Post's article discussing the introduction of OTC hearing aids, with a contribution from Tim Griffiths. washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/…

The final formatted version of "The Hearing Hippocampus" is now available (open access) in Progress in Neurobiology: doi.org/10.1016/j.pneu… . This is work with @BrainLad, Will Sedley, Tim Griffiths @UCLEarInstitute @AuditoryGroup @NewcastleMedSch #hippocampus #sound (1/9)

New EEG paper from our group on neural responses to speech-in-noise and figure-ground perception. An easy EEG set-up to record ERPs to figure-ground segregation even during passive listening opens the door to clinical applications. doi.org/10.1016/j.hear…

Can being musical increase your ability to hold sounds in memory? Musical sophistication is associated with auditory working memory for sound frequency beyond improved frequency perception - New paper by @BrainLad, @alexjbillig and colleagues: nature.com/articles/s4159…

The hippocampus is richly involved in auditory processing & is itself shaped by sound. Our new preprinted review synthesises decades of recording, imaging & lesion work across species. @UCLEarInstitute plus @BrainLad Will Sedley & Tim Griffiths @AuditoryGroup #hippocampus #sound

I'm delighted to have been named as a Rising Star by @PsychScience - huge thanks to all involved and congrats to the other Rising Stars! bit.ly/3Hj61Al @SHaPS_UCL

Human hippocampal involvement in navigating a non-spatial acoustic dimension - fMRI and unit recordings. My @UCLEarInstitute poster at #ARO2022 @AROMWM with @skumar_ncl @JoelIBerger @BrainLad @thewastebook @mariachait @AuditoryGroup et al. #hippocampus #audition #cognition

Congratulations to our colleague @Emma_Holmes_90, winner of this year's @AROMWM Young Investigator Award! aro.org/emma-holmes-ph… #ARO2022

#Newpaper "Representation of time windows in primate auditory cortex" in Cerebral Cortex dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor… We compare the anatomical organization of time window processing in macaques & humans. Are human brains specialised to process speech? @pd2 @Olivier_J_Joly @cipetkov

Our new preprint examining multi-unit responses to pitch stimuli directly from human auditory cortex is available now: tinyurl.com/multi-unit-pit…. Basic details in thread (1/5) ... #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #Science #auditory #ECR #biorxiv_neursci #neuroscience

A postdoc position is available at University of Iowa to take forward our work on misophonia. Someone with experience in fMRI data analysis would best fit the job. For more details, please see: jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view/3… Feel free to get in touch if you have any further query.

JUST OUT #Openaccess in @EJNeuroscience Dynamics underlying auditory‐object‐boundary detection in primary auditory cortex From Newcastle University @UniofNewcastle and Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging @WCHN_UCL @OLab_Duke onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

📑New paper out today with @pd2 @AuditoryGroup @OLab_Duke @skumar_ncl ! We looked at MEG responses to changes in spectrotemporal coherence in sounds. Check it out here (open access🔓): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

Do you want to develop your skills in cognitive assessment? Join the course organised by Prof Tim Griffiths with real case discussions. We will cover #memory, #movement, #sleep, and #hallucinations. Book your place at practicalcognition.com

Interested in learning how to assess cognitive complaints in a case-based approach? Visit practicalcognition.com to register for an online meeting with experts from around the UK. This years topics:- Memory, Movement & Cognition, Hallucinations and Sleep