Basic & Applied NeuroDynamics Laboratory

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 … More Schultz MIDI Benchmarking Toolbox now available!

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 … More Beat Gestures and Syntactic Parsing: An ERP Study

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 … More Blind people learn metrical and nonmetrical rhythms differently than the sighted

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

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 … More Searching high and low: Prosodic breaks disambiguate relative clauses

New article published in Consciousness & Cognition. Free download here (Until December 6, 2016): http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Tuop3lcz3hh5M   Nicole K. Bolt, Evan M. Poncelet, Benjamin G. Schultz, & Janeen D. Loehr Mutual coordination strengthens the sense of joint agency in cooperative joint action, Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 46, November 2016, Pages 173-187, ISSN 1053-8100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.10.001.   Abstract: … More Mutual coordination strengthens the sense of joint agency in cooperative joint action

New paper on timing behavior in cerebellar patients published in Behavioural Brain Research. Free access until August 23, 2016: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1TJv6brwevGzH

New paper on the functional role of neural oscillations in non-verbal emotional communication published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.  

Oliver Bradley has joined the lab. For his Bachelor thesis he will look at temporal and topographical differences in event-related potentials during auditory deviance processing.

We are finally online and ready to roll! The BAND Lab has tripled in size since we started in September and we would like to welcome all of our new members: Postdoctoral Fellows Michel Belyk   PhD Students (PhD Students) Joseph Johnson Lisa Karin Goller (prospective)   Masters Students (Masters Students) Almuth Rosenow Diego Marquez … More Update: March 2016