This is my first BSA meeting since I returned to the UK. We were interested in whether musical instrument learning affects the perception of melodies played by a trained instrument, compared to instruments on which participants had never been trained. 2,911 Hearing loss in midlife has been estimated to account for 9% of cases of dementia, and is thought to be the largest modifable risk factor. Our research shows that understanding what someones saying is difficult when a competing talker is present, but its much easier if were listening to someone who were familiar withsuch as a friend or partnerthan someone whos unfamiliar. I highly recommend giving some of their episodes a listen, which cover a variety of topics in neuroscience. Above Photo: Emma Holmes for Max Factor (Sean & Seng). Overall, the results provide converging evidence that listeners evoke consistent preparatory brain activity for selecting a talker by their location (regardless of their gender or identity), but not by their gender alone. Difficulties with speech-in-noise perception related to fundamental grouping processes in auditory cortex. Perhaps, familiarity with particular timbres helps people to perform other tasks, but our results imply it doesnt help with pitch discrimination. I went into the London Marathon ballot and didnt get a place but thought maybe I should do the longer distances and thats what Ive come to love, the endurance side. Another paper from my PhD has recently been published. Bauer Media Group consists of: Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number: 01176085, Bauer Radio Ltd, Company Number: 1394141, Registered Office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, PE2 6EA H Bauer Publishing,Company Number: LP003328, Registered Office: Academic House, 24-28 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DT. It was one minute run, two minutes walk, and it went from there; I did a 10K first and then a half-marathon, and I thought it would be the only one. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories. In our new paperwhich has just been accepted for publication in Cerebral Cortexwe examine the brain basis of the link between figure-ground and speech-in-noise perception using functional MRI and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). Two of our new papers have recently come out, which were led by Ysabel Domingo. We found that people who are worse at grouping sounds are more likely to experience difficulty hearing in noisy places. Tomorrow, Ill be talking about a new model for generating and recognising speech (Active Listening; PD 7), and on Sunday Ill be presenting some fMRI work showing common neural substrates for figure-ground and speech-in-noise perception (PS 286). Overall, these simulations reveal that functional recovery after brain damage depends on the availability of computational and structural resources. By continuing to use our site, you are agreeing to the use of cookies as set in our Cookie Policy. Ultimately, we hope that these new tests might be useful as a cognitive audiogram that could be used alongside existing measures in the clinic. She was the eventual winner of the season, defeating Elaine Create account. Its the first day of the annual ARO conference and, once again, the conference is taking place online this year. Journal
WebThe half Jamaican half Dutch 18-year-old winner Emma Holmes was announced on last night's show. Time-dependent changes in precision werent needed to explain faster RTs with longer preparatory intervals, but they were necessary to explain the ramping of EEG activity. These results suggest that familiar voices did not benefit intelligibility because they were more predictable or because they attracted greater attention than unfamiliar voices; rather, familiarity with a target voice reduces interference from maskers that are linguistically similar to the target. Ill be talking about how cognition affects speech perception in people with normal and impaired hearing. You can read about this project and other exciting projects of the MLAL group online in the Spring 2016 newsletter. Ill be starting the project later this year. This year, I gave two talks and co-moderated a podium session, so the conference was even busier than usual! I admire her determination and work ethic so much. This document has since been published as The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866 by the Louisiana University Press. Equipped with an appropriate generative model, our Bayesian agent scored 100% correct on the task. Personally, Ive learnt that tracking gender statistics within a department (which is often not as comprehensive as we would hope) is crucial for clarifying the causes of underepresentation in a workplace. We are also considering training approaches that might help to improve listening in noisy places. M Lad, S Kumar, E Holmes, B McMurray, EA Maguire, Neuron 108 (3), 401-412, 2020. Large changes in voice pitch reduced participants ability to recognise their friends voice and reduced the intelligibility of familiar than unfamiliar voices, but did not completely eliminate the ability to perform either task (i.e., participants could still recognise the pitch-manipulated voice as familiar and they gained a small intelligibility benefit from that voice). Ive also put a couple of examples of our new tests on YouTube, so you can have a listen for yourself. International Journal of Audiology. We always presented a competing stimulus at the same time: it was either a different talker speaking a sentence in the same language as the target (English), a different talker speaking a sentence in a language that was incomprehensible to the listener (Spanish or Russian), or unintelligible noise (constructed from the sentences presented in the other conditions). Griffiths, T. D., Lad, M., Kumar, S., Holmes, E., McMurray, B., Maguire, E. A., Billig, A. J., & Sedley, W. (2020). Ive just got back from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. She brings something different and fresh to Max Factor. We couldnt agree more and expect great things from the lovely Emma. You can visit the following link to read a media story about this research: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/news/2019/nov/difficulty-hearing-noisy-places-could-be-fault-brain-not-ears, Holmes, E., & Griffiths, T. D. (2019). You can read a summary of the project on our centres website: https://engagement.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/grants/digital-engagement-grants-2020/. In noisy places, it can be difficult to understand what someones saying. Over the past 8 weeks, Holmes worked hard to fight off competition from the 24 other aspiring models- who were divided into different teams, mentored by leading catwalk queens Campbell, Erin OConnor and Caroline Winberg. Im honored to be listed among collleagues doing excellent and important research. Honestly, it was truly nail-biting stuff, although us beauty ladies are over the moon for Emma and cannot wait to check out the new Max Factor Christmas campaign. Photographer
Terms of Service apply. Im delighted to announce that Ive been awarded a Pauline Ashley Fellowship from Action in Hearing Loss. Our new paper, Active inference, selective attention, and the cocktail party problem, has just come out in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. My favourite is Body Attack, which actually doesnt work well for running because you have to do high kicks, which works the hamstrings differently to running, so I take it very easy but its great fun like going to a disco! Im looking forward to my new role, and building my group here. When you have that many girls fighting for the same goal, everything is heightened. Im looking forward to presenting my latest fMRI work on How are familiar voices represented in auditory cortex?, catching up with colleagues, and enjoying the beautiful scenery in Banff! This idea is becoming increasingly important, because researchers have often assumed that differences in FFRs at these frequencies must reflect differences in brainstem processing. In both experiments, we found no benefit to intelligibility when the familiar voice was the masker. Emma Holmes, winner of The Face 2013, has been announcheas the face of Max Factors False Lash Effect mascara Christmas ad campaign. I rarely listened to podcasts before the pandemic, but Ive discovered loads of good ones over the past year, which I didnt know existed. Whereas, incomplete damage to both systems damaged performance less in the short-term, but more in the long-term, because performance didnt recover as much after damage. She showed a general segregation deficit, displaying atypical performance for words-in-noise, music streaming, and figure-ground perceptiondespite intact peripheral function, working memory, and recognition of familiar melodies. WebEmma Holmes was a resident of South Carolina who kept a diary during the American Civil War.This document has since been published as The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866 by the Louisiana University Press. The simulated lesions either damaged the premorbid system but left the alternative system intact, or partially damaged both systems. On Thursday, Im giving a talk at the 3rd Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology. The stunning 18-year old beauty was picked out by Max Factor judges Caroline Barnes and Scott Bradley for her unique beauty and similarities to Mr Max Factors original 1920s muse, Marlene Dietrich. Difficulties with speech-in-noise perception related to fundamental grouping processes in auditory cortex. Our new paperVariational representational similarity analysisis now available online at Neuroimage. The Symposium on Cognitive Auditory Neuroscience (SCAN) was originally intended to take place in Pittsburgh in 2020but COVID-19 had other ideas for 2020! Its been estimated that 5-15% of people who visit audiology clinics reporting hearing difficulty turn out to have normal hearing, as defined by current clinical standards. Psychological science 29 (10), 1575-1583, 2018. You can read the piece online at the Daily Mailwhich hopefully provides a nice break from the U.K. election news! This week, two of our papers on voice familiarity were published online. WebGoldstein Emma Holmes Report Page 3 took Cohn up on his offer to partner following his presentation to all Orange County superintendents. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0011918. Last night Emma Holmes was crowned the winner of Sky Living and Naomi Campbell's modelling show The Face - a show that's been such a huge hit it led to Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model being canned in favour of the series. When the target voice was familiar, the spatial pattern of brain activity for the sentence+masker more closely resembled the same sentence presented alone, than when the target voice was unfamiliar. Hearing Research, 107998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2020.107998. The Canadian Audiologist recently published our article, which summarises some of our key findings on familiar voices. Ive recently started using Github and have created a profile to share some of my code. You can find the code on my Github profile. In a second paper, published in Psychological Science, we investigated how rapidly speech intelligibility improves when a novel voice is trained to become familiar. The paper reports three EEG experiments investigating the time course of preparatory attention, when adults (18-27 years) and children (7-13 years) were cued to attend to one of two talkers during multi-talker listening. But she said she didn't want to model because it wasn't challenging enough. She brings something different and fresh to Max Factor.. Scientific Reports, 10, 13997. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70952-9. Some interesting discussion followed about whether we can and should try to tease apart differences in patterns of activity from differences in mean activity. Alex Billig and I organised a Young Investigator Symposium on Non-acoustic influences on speech perception in normal and impaired hearing, which will take place on Tuesday. Participants were cued to attend to a talker (defined by their location or gender) who spoke in a mixture of three talkers. Ive just moved 10 minutes down the road from Queens Square to my new office in Chandler House. As usual, the conference was packed with interesting research and it was difficult to see everything in the time available! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.038. Lad, M., Holmes, E., Chu, A., and Griffiths, T. D. (2020). We hope that this model will be useful for modelling selective attention in future work. Our new paper in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics is now available online. We used a novel paradigm that tests auditory working memory for non-speech sounds that vary in frequency and amplitude modulation rate. We describe a hierarchical model for linguistic communication, which produces theta-gamma coupling. "It's weird because when someone is that iconic, you have so much respect and admiration for them - and that sometimes gets misinterpreted as fear. Bjrn Herrmann and I recently received notification that our paperentitled Revisiting the contribution of auditory cortex to frequency-following responseshas been accepted for publication in The Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25638. Thanks to Sarah Verhulst for organising such an interesting meeting and for introducing us to the lovely (albeit a little rainy) city of Ghent! Familiar voices are more intelligible, even if they are not recognized as familiar. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 12881304. But I followed this plan that built us up to 5K or 10K and found that, with perseverance, you can build up to a certain distance but I still was what my husband called a jogger, not a runner. If youre around, come along to find out (1) how being familiar with someones voice helps you to better understand what theyre saying, (2) how long it takes to become familiar with a new voice, and (3) how patterns of brain activity elicited by a voice depend on its familiarity. Her story is incredibly inspirational and I strongly recommend checking out her work. To recognise sentences, the model must also segment speech. On Wednesday (21st February), Ill be visiting Royal Holloway and will be giving a talk on our recent work on familiar voices. I had no stamina. But when model and marathon runner Emma Holmes wrote to us to point out that models are real women, too, we invited her to star on our June cover and to tell us what she loves about our sport. And its taught me to respect each of the distances, Ive worked out Im more of an endurance runner. VAT no 918 5617 01, H Bauer Publishing are authorised and regulated for credit broking by the FCA (Ref No. Interestingly, the neural benefit of a familiar voice correlated with the behavioural benefit to speech intelligibility, and not the degree of familiarity. These grants are a new initiative by the Brain and Mind Institute to promote collaboration between different labs and give postdocs the opportunity to carry out independent research projects. Going forwards, I hope that we can continue to strengthen our reporting, and use the knowledge learned to improve representation. (2016). Johnsrude, I., Holmes, E., & Deeks, J. These findings demonstrate that sensorineural hearing loss has consequences for central processing, providing a shift in thinking from the traditional view of hearing loss as purely a peripheral phenomenon. Yougo slower which is quite nice! The final four models were challenged to take part in a photoshoot and film a commercial for Max Factor. We trained participants with three different voices for different lengths of time. Human Brain Mapping. This unique case shows that these regions are critically involved in auditory segregation and reveal a new type of auditory agnosia, which is associated with similar symptoms as the visual symptom of simultaneous agnosia. We simulate EEG responses using standard belief update schemes. We found that EFRs were modulated by frequency-specific attention when we used stimuli with lower amplitude modulation rates (93109 Hz), but not when we used stimuli with higher amplitude modulation rates (217233 Hz). In the second paperpublished in JASAwe compared the familiar-voice benefit to intelligibility with the benefit due to spatial release from masking. Participants had to detect a pattern (the figure) in the stimuli, in which the tones stayed the same frequency at adjacent chords. This effect was strongest at intermediate levels of the auditory cortical hierarchy: left posterior STG, MTG, and planum temporale. This process might help us to combine foreground elements, like speech, over seconds to help separate them from the background of an auditory scene (e.g., noise or other peoples conversations). Nature Scientific Reports, 9, 16771. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53353-5, Weve created some new auditory figure-ground stimuli, which we tested in listeners with normal hearing. Three of the sessions have already taken place: I attended them all and thoroughly enjoyed every session. The paper describes two experiments that investigated whether envelope following responses (EFRs) are affected by attention. I formed a committee to review the applications and was also involved in reviewing the applications myself. Running has taught me that your body can achieve whatever your mind wants it to and I think thats true for all of the distances. The project will delve deeper into the benefits of training a voice to become familiar, following on from some research I did in collaboration with Ingrid Johnsrude (Holmes, To & Johnsrude, 2021). I do Body Attack, spinning and a class called Total Body Workout. In this game, synthetic subjects take the role of the questioner or answerer, using the same hierarchical generative model. This may be particularly noticeable over the festive season, which is commonly filled with noisy parties and loud family gatherings. Even better, theres no registration fee this year, which means that its a great time to get involved, no matter what your funding situation or where youre located. var _g1; Ive had a lovely afternoon presenting an update on my research at the RNID staff summit, and talking to a variety of interesting people. Holmes, E., & Herrmann, B. My husband ran the marathon in 2012 and we had a bit of banter would I ever start running? We have another new modelling paper out this week. How can hearing loss cause dementia? doi:10.1037/xlm0000823, Im on my way to San Jose, CA, for the 2020 ARO Mid-Winter Meeting. Johan Carlins talk was also very insightful, showing how differences in mean activity can influence the structure of multi-dimensional scaling output in surprising ways. Ive recently created a new repository on my GitHub page, which contains some miscallaneous scripts that are relevant to auditory research. But the real - but according to the winner (one of the girls on 'Team Naomi', personally mentored by the supermodel), she isn't as scary as everyone thinks. Most previous experiments investigating endogenous visual and/or auditory attention have not tested cue-target intervals as long as 2 seconds, yet we found a significant improvement in performance between cue-target intervals of 1 and 2 seconds. This finding supports a mechanism by which partially preparing attention improves performance, but performance does not peak until we are in a fully prepared state. Publisher
In this paper, we show that familiar-voice information is used differently in different contextsdepending on whether the goal is to recognise someone from their voice or to understand the words that person is saying. I particularly enjoyed talks by Matthew Winn (Speech perception with a cochlear implant: Percent-correct scores do not explain listening effort) and Lori Holt (Supervised error-driven learning in speech perception) and a symposium on Age-Related Plasticity Changes in the Central Auditory System. Sounds that reach our ears are continuous and overlapping. They suggest that familiarity with a target voice improves intelligibility by helping listeners to avoid interference from distractors that are linguistically similar to the target. The magnitude of the benefit in young adults whose familiar voices were friends they had known for only half a year or longer was similar to the benefit in older adults whose familiar voices were partners they had lived with for more than 5 years. A paper from my PhD has been accepted in Hearing Research and is now available online. I used this script to plot the group audiogram results from 97 participants in Holmes & Griffiths (2019) (Figure 2). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. People with hearing impairment are known to find listening to speech particularly difficult and effortful when reverberant noise is present. Although, preparatory EEG activity for gender was only apparent when the cue for gender predicted the specific identity of the male or female talkers and was not present when the gender cue could refer to one of three different male or female talkers. We recruited pairs of friends and romantic couples. Theres just less pressure, which is lovely. "When we saw the catwalk we were absolutely convinced Emma was the best," says Barnes. It wasnt It generates quantitative predictions for both behaviour and neural responses, and could be modified for a variety of different purposes. Lecturer, UCL. Sometimes even seemingly small thingssuch as a nice comment after a presentation, or the knowledge that more senior colleagues care about your careerhave a lasting impact. Furthermore, even when explicit recognition of familiar voices was eliminated, they were still more intelligible than unfamiliar voicesdemonstrating that familiar voices do not need to be explicitly recognized to benefit intelligibility.
If youre not in Canada, you can listen online. The competition was modeled on the increasingly popular Three Minute Thesis competition, which was first held at the University of Queensland in 2008. Half-Dutch and half-Jamaican, Holmes entered the competition after a friend urged her to give it a try. Tomorrow, Ill be co-chairing the Speech Perception session, which looks like it should be a really interesting session. (2017). We took over the long runs up to about 10 miles from last September, and then in January we took on the marathon course. Im delighted to have been named as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. Empirically, this would be interpreted as theta-gamma coupling. It doesnt ask questions that have already been answered by its previous questions. If you have received a code for a lightbox via an email, just enter the code in the field below to view the lightbox. The campaign requires them to take part in an interview conducted by Gordon Smart, journalist and editor of The Sun 's celebrity column Bizarre. A panel of judges evaluated our presentations and I was awarded a prize, which includes funding for travel to a future conference. This enables us to use Parameteric Empirical Bayes to test for consistent effects across participants, and Bayesian Model Comparison to test hypotheses about condition-specific effects. We recruited pairs of friends who had known each other for longer than 6 months. Thus, the model segments speech most consistent with its prior expectations (like humans do). Our results imply that acoustics affect pitch discrimination more than does familiarity with particular timbres. Thus, even extensive experience listening toand learning to producesounds of a particular timbre, doesnt appear to improve pitch thresholds. Our new paper has just been published online in JARO. TV Production
WebDrum roll, please as Emma Holmes has just been crowned the winner of Naomi Campbells model talent show and, perhaps not surprisingly, was part of the Sector:
We found no familiar-voice benefit when the masker was unintelligible noise. The winner takes home a Max Factor False Lash Effect Mascara campaign. Noor simulated how different types of lesions affect word repetition performance (i.e., repeating heard words). Listen up ladies, as weve got some seriously breaking beauty news for you, although look away now if you didnt manage to catch up with last nights final episode of The Face. Im 39 now and I feel that Im the fittest Ive ever been. When it comes to adaptive wear, it needs to be fashionable, she says. Im on my way to the 41st ARO MidWinter meeting and half the plane is filled with auditory researchers! Ill be heading up to Newcastle tomorrow for a joint meeting of the Phonetics & Phonology and Auditory groups. We hope that our tests might be useful in the future for assessing this type of difficulty, which is not well assessed by current clinical tests. _g1.setAttribute('src', _g1.getAttribute('data-src') ); Generative models, linguistic communication and active inference. You can read more about the day on the Action on Hearing Loss website. Active inference, selective attention, and the cocktail party problem. Im very grateful to have received a Women in Cognitive Science Travel and Networking Award to attend. Specifically, we found that the sort of errors exhibited by human listeners occur when precision for words on the non-cued side is only marginally lower than the precision for words on the attended sidein which case, words from the unattended side can break through. We currently dont know why this is, or what causes this difficulty. The benefit to speech intelligibility of hearing a familiar voice. Im excited to get working on this project in the new yearwhich includes MEG and behavioural experiments and new modelling work. Itll be held at Chandler House at 4pmplease feel free to come along. Watch this space! And the reason why she thinks the show has been so successful? Holmes was known throughout the series for her "big personality", which she admits can sometimes "get me in trouble" - traits that certainly didn't deter her famous mentor. Holmes, E., Zeidman, P., Friston, K. J., & Griffiths, T. D. (2021). A few weeks ago, I was arguing with one of the other contestants and Naomi came to me, when the cameras had been turned off, and was so kind. WebEmma Holmes's 40 research works with 418 citations and 4,891 reads, including: Pitch discrimination is better for synthetic timbre than natural musical instrument timbres despite familiarity The summit was held at Ill post more details here when the paper goes live. After a long journey (that ended up re-routed via Finland), Ive arrived in Leipzig for the IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School. Hope to see you there! The project is a collaboration between researchers at the Brain and Mind Institute and at the Don Wright Faculty of Music. Nevertheless, the relative magnitudes of cortical and brainstem contributions to FFRs at different frequencies remain unclear. The conference agenda and a searchable list of abstracts are available online. She won a modeling contest when she was 17 and in 2008 was scouted for her first international fashion show for Burberry. I had a fun time mentoring her - sometimes more fun than others - and know we'll stay in touch. WebEmma Holmes was one of the 12 finalists on Season 1 of The Face U.K., who was a member of Team Naomi. I had a fun time mentoring her sometimes more fun than others and know well stay in touch.. The Journal of Neuroscience, 37(21), 52185220. When participants listened with a hearing-aid setting designed for reverberant environments, they reported more words correctly and reported lower listening effort than when they used a standard omnidirectional hearing-aid setting. This Royal Society meeting was held at Chicheley Halla lovely location in the Buckinghamshire countryside. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(5), 34873494. If modeling doesn't work out for her, her mum has told her that she will have to go back to university and focus on her studies and that she only has a year to become a model. WebCampbell's favoured protg, Canterbury-born student Emma Holmes, was crowned the winner and walked away with the prize of starring in a Max Factor campaign. 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