Visual identification of Taiwan Mandarin rounded vowels pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti... Study examined how Taiwan Mandarin speakers identify rounded vowels using visual-only input. Results reveal an asymmetric pattern between /y/ & /u/, with a bias toward /u/ 👁️👄

Visual identification of Taiwan Mandarin rounded vowels

While auditory and visual cues jointly support vowel perception, the role of visual information alone in vowel identification remains understudied. This study e

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📚 Citation Classic "Comparison of parametric representations for monosyllabic word recognition in continuously spoken sentences" Davis & Mermelstein (1980) Citations: 9600+ Introduced MFCCs — the acoustic features that powered speec... 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1109/TASSP.1980.1163420 #SpeechScience

Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons & 29 patients www.nature.com/articles/s41... Single Unit activity(29 intracranially implanted patients) from the Medial temporal lobe:Amygdala, hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, parahippocampal cortex as they watched 500 Days of Summer

Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients

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📢 Applications now open for the Anne Cutler International Visiting Fellowship 2027. Open to researchers in #Linguistics, #SpeechScience, #Developmental & #Experimental Psychology, #Psycholinguistics, #ComputationalLinguistics, & #CommunicationEngineering. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5fy6bmt2

Visuospatial experience shapes the form of gestures: Blind speakers gesture with more precise spatial tracking of motion than sighted speakers link.springer.com/article/10.3... Do co-speech gestures differ in those blind from birth? Here path-only gestures 20 blind, 21 blindfolded, 21 sighted 🙅

Visuospatial experience shapes the form of gestures: Blind speakers gesture with more precise spatial tracking of motion than sighted speakers - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Co-speech gestures emerge from the interaction between visuospatial experience and speech formulation, but what happens when visual experience is absent from birth? Blind individuals gesture in ways c...

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Effects of Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Directionality on Performance and Orienting Behavior in a Multi-Talker Audiovisual Search Task www.ovid.com/jnls/ear-hea... Found fundamental differences in task performance and orienting behavior between HI & NH listeners in complex multi-talker environments

Effects of Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid... : Ear & Hearing

Objectives:Hearing-impaired (HI) individuals experience substantial difficulties with speech perception in reverberant environments with multiple...

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Check out the Keynote speaker for AVSP 2026 project.inria.fr/avsp2026/key... This is going to be great!

Using the DIVA model to better understand speech motor disorders https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42484500/

A multisensory integrative forebrain area (NCC) in Female Zebra Finches discriminates between Normal and Abnormal Conspecific Song www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "we employed an operant conditioning paradigm, using normal conspecific songs and Parkinsonian-like songs", er, Parkinsonian songs

A multisensory integrative forebrain area (NCC) in Female Zebra Finches discriminates between Normal and Abnormal Conspecific Song

For many species, vocal communication is an essential part of mate selection and courtship. In songbirds, such as zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata),…

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Competing speech streams are simultaneously represented in the human cortex during attention switching journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Measured the neural encoding of two competing speech streams amid background babble. Do listeners carry out a reset in lexical context after switching attention?

Competing speech streams are simultaneously represented in the human cortex during attention switching

How the brain rapidly switches attention between competing speech streams in complex listening environments is not fully understood. This study shows that neural tracking of a new speaker emerges befo...

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Evidence of predictive information compression in latent space in humans during speech listening https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.14.738305v1

Repetition induced rhythm as an alternative account to statistical word segmentation: A model and meta-analysis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Proposes word segmentation driven by rhythmic properties of the artificial language input used in prior studies- Neat interpretation & novel findings

Repetition induced rhythm as an alternative account to statistical word segmentation: A model and meta-analysis

From a brief exposure to an artificial language, infants and adults can segment out the embedded words in the speech input. The fact that segmentation…

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Do babies perceive cries as speech? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Newborns responded more strongly to infant cries than speech. This heightened response to a less familiar & acoustically simpler communicative signal interpreted as evidence that vocal production perception linked from birth

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Silent speech with ultrasound alephneuro.com/blog/silent-... Predicted speech from tongue ultrasound recordings (claims open-vocabulary WER of 15.6%) "just needed to transfer our video embeddings into the embedding space of Whisper" - light on details - wondering if @awrench.bsky.social has views

From localization to distribution: revisiting the functional organization of the extrastriate body area academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... Review summarises research on the extrastriate body area & examines evidence linking the region to broader cognitive & affective processes

From localization to distribution: revisiting the functional organization of the extrastriate body area

Abstract. The extrastriate body area is a functional region of the human brain located in the lateral occipitotemporal cortex and was originally identified

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📚 Citation Classic "Recognizing spoken words: The neighborhood activation model" Luce & Pisoni (1998) Citations: 2807+ Introduced NAM demonstrating how the density of similar sounding words affects auditory word recognition. 🔗 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3467695/ #SpeechScience

Performance & Biases of the LENA & ACLEW Algorithms in Analyzing Language Environments in Down, Fragile X, Angelman Syndromes & Populations at Elevated Likelihood for Autism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Similar performance, distinct error patterns, driven by total surrounding speaker time

Performance and Biases of the LENA and ACLEW Algorithms in Analyzing Language Environments in Down, Fragile X, Angelman Syndromes, and Populations at Elevated Likelihood for Autism

Wearable recorders are used in research and clinical practice to collect and measure children's vocalizations and the language environment in which they occur. Recordings generate vast amounts of au...

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Seeing a Talker’s Mouth Reduces the Effort of Perceiving Speech and Repairing Perceptual Mistakes for Listeners With Cochlear Implants www.ovid.com/jnls/ear-hea... Speaker visual cues improve speech intelligibility & reduces listening effort, especially for CI listeners when repairing a missing word

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Objectives:Seeing a talker’s mouth improves speech intelligibility, particularly for listeners who use cochlear implants (CIs). However, the impacts...

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Bsky research peeps >help🆘 I'll be on a panel discussing Navigating Research in the World of Social Media Today There will be questions - hence the plea Any ideas for this Q In your experience, what are some of the benefits and potential risks of using social media platforms to communicate research?

The ‘design features’ of language revisited www.cell.com/trends/cogni... "In 1960, Hockett proposed 13 ‘design features’ of language to identify commonalities with, and differences from, other nonlinguistic signaling systems and animal communication systems...We re-evaluate Hockett’s framework" 🫣

The ‘design features’ of language revisited

Language is often regarded as a defining trait of our species, but what are its core properties? In 1960, Hockett published ‘The origin of speech’ enumerating 13 design features presumed to be common ...

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Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices After Fifty Years: A Large-Scale McGurk Illusion Dataset for Audiovisual Speech Research www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... McGurk illusion dataset comprises auditory (N = 400), visual (N = 400), and audiovisual (N = 640) speech stimuli generated from 80 Mandarin speakers

Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices After Fifty Years: A Large-Scale McGurk Illusion Dataset for Audiovisual Speech Research

Efficient face-to-face communication relies on the integration of auditory speech and visual articulatory signals. Over the past five decades, the McGurk illusion has been widely used as an index of a...

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Seeing the Speaker’s Face Enhances Second Language Shadowing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... fMRI study investigated how facial cues influence second language (L2) shadowing among 42 Japanese learners of English

<em>Language Learning</em> | Language Learning Research Club Journal | Wiley Online Library

A one-page Accessible Summary of this article in nontechnical language is freely available in the Supporting Information online and at https://oasis-database.org

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do you ever ask yourself How does optical blur affect audiovisual speech perception and emotion perception? find out here link.springer.com/article/10.3...

How does optical blur affect audiovisual speech perception and emotion perception? - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Abstract This study investigated how optical blur affects the auditory-based perception of speech and emotion within a unified experimental paradigm. It is widely known that auditory judgments of spee...

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New open dataset out in Scientific Data 🚨 We are releasing BBBD: the Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work with @parralab.org

The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos

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A multimodal speech-production dataset with time-aligned articulography, EEG, audio, and vocal-tract anatomy www.nature.com/articles/s41... Simultaneous EMA, EEG & audio from 29 adult native speakers of German Hosted on SWISSUbase - login via www.clarin.eu/content/fede...

📚 Citation Classic "Echoes of echoes? An episodic theory of lexical access" S.D. Goldinger (1998) Citations: 3100+ Proposed that a speaker's specific voice details are stored with words, challenging abstract phonological representat... 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.105.2.251 #SpeechScience

Prior exposure to speech rapidly modulates cortical processing of high-level linguistic structure academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... Study manipulated prior knowledge to enhance the intelligibility of physically identical speech then tested neural tracking responses

Prior exposure to speech rapidly modulates cortical processing of high-level linguistic structure

Abstract. Neural activity has been shown to track hierarchical linguistic units in connected speech, and these responses are modulated by changes in speech

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Linguists should learn to love speech-based deep learning models www.cambridge.org/core/journal... "Once the bottleneck of text can be replaced...modelling more human-like linguistic processes..[& handle] the vast majority of local & regional language varieties that are rarely or never written down"

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status www.eneuro.org/content/earl... "ocular speech tracking seems to respond selectively to acoustic features of speech, and does not require visual experience to develop"

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status

While eye movements have been shown to track the speech envelope, it is unknown whether this reflects a hard-wired mechanism or one shaped by (lifetime) audiovisual experience. Further, questions rema...

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