Im on my way to San Diego for my first Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting! It doesnt ask questions that have already been answered by its previous questions. In a previous study, we found that the ability to hear speech in noisy places varies widely among people, and relates to auditory figure-ground perception (Holmes & Griffiths, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa311. 137 posts. Today, Ill present some of the work we did together, and explain how its shaped my current thinking and research interests. This year, I gave two talks and co-moderated a podium session, so the conference was even busier than usual! But there is not a one-to-one mapping between words and the acoustic signal. This paper introduces variational RSA, a new multivariate approach. Preparing this also reminded me about all the related work weve done on this topic, which should be available in the coming year. A panel of judges evaluated our presentations and I was awarded a prize, which includes funding for travel to a future conference. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.038. (2021). Ive created a video to describe the project and to showcase our new animations, which you can watch on YouTube at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91IwZFW613A. Three of the sessions have already taken place: I attended them all and thoroughly enjoyed every session. We measured pitch discrimination thresholds for flute tones, violin tones, trumpet tones, and artifical flat-spectrum complex tones. Moreover, most participants who were unable to recognise their friends voice as familiar when it was manipulated still received a speech intelligibility benefit from this same voice (i.e., participants were better at reporting words in the manipulated familiar voice than the same words in an unfamilar voice, who the participant had never met). All of the posters are available to view already, and most also have a 3-minute video digest, which I think is a great idea (even if I hated recording my own!). 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). We tested different hypotheses for these effects and, in brief, we found that the two sets of findingswhich, on the surface, appear to be strongly linkedwere in fact simulated through different manipulations to the model. This Royal Society meeting was held at Chicheley Halla lovely location in the Buckinghamshire countryside. The code I wrote to calculate Phase Coherence is available on my Github page in MATLAB and Python. And the reason why she thinks the show has been so successful? 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. 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. In a second paper, published in Psychological Science, we investigated how rapidly speech intelligibility improves when a novel voice is trained to become familiar. This document has since been published as The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866 by the Louisiana University Press. I had a fun time mentoring her - sometimes more fun than others - and know we'll stay in touch. (2018). Holmes, E., & Johnsrude, I. S. (2020). I said no, and then that night I signed up to a back-to-running beginners course. Specifically, we aimed to examine two findings from empirical studies: first, reaction times for reporting words on the cued side improve when the cue is presented longer in advance; second, spatial cueing is associated with a ramping of EEG activity, resembling the contingent negative variation (CNV), before the speech begins. This International Womens Day, Im feeling grateful for all the amazing female mentors Ive had, who have given me advice, confidence, and support over the years. hanks to everyone involved and congratulations to the other Rising Stars. Our generative model maps lexical, speaker, and prosodic factors to a continuous acoustic signal. We conducted a wide range of tests, including discrimination of basic acoustic features, more complex scene analysis, and tests involving overlapping sounds. On Thursday, Im giving a talk at the 3rd Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology. WebProfile Born into a strict Scientologist family, who attends church on a weekly basis, Elaine lived a shy and sheltered childhood, but now feels that it is her time to shine as a model. Her story is incredibly inspirational and I strongly recommend checking out her work. Another paper from my PhD has recently been published. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.07.005. 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. I love seeing other people achieve their goals for these girls to run their first marathon is amazing and it is giving something back. This one has been a long time coming, so its good to see it out! I recently talked about our work on familiar voices with Wilf from Watercooler.FM. Normal hearing thresholds and fundamental auditory grouping processes predict difficulties with speech-in-noise perception. I formed a committee to review the applications and was also involved in reviewing the applications myself. EEG activity evoked in preparation for multi-talker listening by adults and children. Music Learning Across the Lifespan (MLAL) group. Segmentations are disambiguated via lexical priors. Scientific Reports, 10, 13997. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70952-9. The lack of cheesiness you might find on other modelling reality shows - "It's so real. Naomi Campbell has been her mentor through the show, and the two speak very warmly of each other. You can read the piece online at the Daily Mailwhich hopefully provides a nice break from the U.K. election news! Our new paperVariational representational similarity analysisis now available online at Neuroimage. M Lad, S Kumar, E Holmes, B McMurray, EA Maguire, Neuron 108 (3), 401-412, 2020. She attended The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. She brings something different and fresh to Max Factor. We couldnt agree more and expect great things from the lovely Emma. Our paper in Psych Science is now available online! I remember standing there underwear thinking, 'I am standing in a room wearing only underwear in a room full of supermodels.' WebEmma Holmes, winner of The Face 2013, has been announche as the face of Max Factor s False Lash Effect mascara Christmas ad campaign. Thanks to everyone involved and congratulations to the other Rising Stars. After a long journey (that ended up re-routed via Finland), Ive arrived in Leipzig for the IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School. Pitch discrimination is better for synthetic timbre than natural musical instrument timbres, despite familiarity. Its also taught me that, even at 39, you can still be really fit and enjoy running and doing well at it. Overall, it was a very interesting and rewarding experience. Interestingly, the neural benefit of a familiar voice correlated with the behavioural benefit to speech intelligibility, and not the degree of familiarity. Don't have an account yet? Overall, these results highlight the great potential of such training for improving intelligibility in everyday settings. Familiar voices are more intelligible, even if they are not recognized as familiar. BEAUTY SCENE online publications mean a fixation of a collection of literary works of a journalistic nature, which may also comprise other works or subject-matter and constitutes an individual item within a periodical or regularly-updated publication under a single title, having the purpose of providing educational services and publishing research under the initiative, editorial responsibility and control of a BEAUTY SCENE editorial board. Im also looking forward to the satellite meeting tomorrow on Advanced Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN). 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. A paper from my PhD has been accepted in Hearing Research and is now available online. You can read the full paper here: Domingo, Y., Holmes, E., Macpherson, E., & Johnsrude, I. S. (2019). Campbell says of Holmes: I am so proud of Emma. The paper includes several other simulations of communication between two agents. She was with a New York agency, Elite, and they had a London office so I sent my pictures down to them. (2017). The paper can be viewed online here. WebEmma Holmes was one of the 12 finalists on Season 1 of The Face U.K., who was a member of Team Naomi. Terms of Service apply. Ive recently edited the scripts so that theyre more general, which will hopefully mean that theyre useful to other researchers. Nevertheless, the relative magnitudes of cortical and brainstem contributions to FFRs at different frequencies remain unclear. We caught up with her the day after shed run the Lydd 20 to find out more about her running, and how she mixes modelling and marathons. I have programmed both of these analyses in MATLAB and Python. Intelligibility of the voice trained for ~60 minutes was comparable to that of a naturally familiar friend/spouse (that weve reported in previous studies). The results demonstrate that amplitude modulation rate can dramatically affect the conclusions of EFR studiesimplying that different neuronal populations contribute to EFRs at these lower and higher rates. Unlike classic RSA approaches, this paper describes a method for using standard variational inference procedures to quantify the contributions of particular patterns to the data. 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. The Stories to Read On Clean Energy. While the model could develop resistance to insult, the effects of damage could not be overcome beyond a certain point, leading to persistent impairments. A cut-off value is used to determine whether someone has hearing loss. Some interesting discussion followed about whether we can and should try to tease apart differences in patterns of activity from differences in mean activity. There are models who are real runners and real people too! "When we saw the catwalk we were absolutely convinced Emma was the best," says Barnes. Watch this space for details. I dontlike the 5K and 10Ks, I like going longer and slower. Ill post more details here when the paper goes live. 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