Schultz MIDI Benchmarking Toolbox now available!

Ever wanted to test the timing of your MIDI percussion pads, sound modules, and instrument patches? Well now you can! The SMIDIBT is available and the scripts are free to download: https://rdcu.be/LQJQ If you have any comments or questions, feel free to contact Ben Schultz: ben.schultz@maastrichtuniversity.nl Reference Schultz, B. G. (2018). The Schultz MIDI … Read more Schultz MIDI Benchmarking Toolbox now available!

Beat Gestures and Syntactic Parsing: An ERP Study

The second part of a project investigating the relationship between prosody and speaker’s gestures, in collaboration with Lauren Fromont (Montreal) and Salvador Soto-Faraco (Barcelona), has been published now. If you want to read the whole story, check this out: Fromont L.A., Soto-Faraco S., and Biau E. (2017) Searching High and Low: Prosodic Breaks Disambiguate Relative … Read more Beat Gestures and Syntactic Parsing: An ERP Study

Blind people learn metrical and nonmetrical rhythms differently than the sighted

The article can be read here for free (for a limited time): http://rdcu.be/vTrT When learning rhythms, sighted people tend to learn rhythms better when they induce a sense of beat (i.e., metrical rhythms) compared to when they don’t (i.e., nonmetrical rhythms). This experiment shows that blind people demonstrated the reverse trend; they learned nonmetrical rhythms better … Read more Blind people learn metrical and nonmetrical rhythms differently than the sighted

Breaking Research: How the vocal tract changes when speaking and singing

Benjamin Schultz, Joao Correia, and Michel Belyk have been examining changes in the vocal tract while speaking, whistling, and singing. Here, one of our singers aims to sing with as clear a tone as possible. Notice how the throat is nice and open: Here, the same singer aims to mimic Louis Armstrong’s raspy vocal style. The throat … Read more Breaking Research: How the vocal tract changes when speaking and singing

Searching high and low: Prosodic breaks disambiguate relative clauses

New published article: In this paper, we investigated how some modulations in the speaker’s voice may impact the interpretation of ambiguous sentences on the listener’s side. We showed that the simple placement of prosodic breaks (i.e. short silences) at different key anchors in auditory sentences was enough to flip listeners’ preference toward an interpretation or the other. So be … Read more Searching high and low: Prosodic breaks disambiguate relative clauses

Lab Director – Sonja A. Kotz

I hold a Chair in Neuropsychology and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN), Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology (NP&PP) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I serve as a board member and senior editor of major journals and actively review for all top journals in my fields of research (Nature, Science, Nature … Read more Lab Director – Sonja A. Kotz

Our Research

The primary goal of the group is to investigate the facilitatory effects of predictive cues in comprehension and its underlying processes. Focusing on rhythmic, formal, and emotional cues in communicative signals, we aim to identify factors that modulate the extraction of cues and thus the resulting predictions. Furthermore, we examine the functional and neuroanatomical links … Read more Our Research

Publications

Posts from our new articles: Beat Gestures and Syntactic Parsing: An ERP Study – Blind people learn metrical and nonmetrical rhythms differently than the sighted – Searching high and low: Prosodic breaks disambiguate relative clauses – Mutual coordination strengthens the sense of joint agency in cooperative joint action – Timing behavior in cerebellar patients published in Behavioural … Read more Publications

Meet the BAND-Lab

Here you will find information about our members and the research we conduct.

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Contact Us

If you are interested in joining the BAND Laboratory or collaborating on our projects, please email us:

Sonja Kotz: sonja.kotz@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Joseph Johnson: joseph.johnson@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Xanthate Duggirala: xanthate.duggirala@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Postal address:

Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER
Maastricht, The Netherlands

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