Basic & Applied NeuroDynamics Laboratory: Where brain research meets real-life applications
This paper sheds some light on how timing abilities across perception and production domains are affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Functional impairments were found in TBI patients for cognitive processing speed and perceptual timing, which extended to motor timing.
Find out more here: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.731898
In this article we tested whether temporo-cerebellar disconnection is associated with the processing of sounds at short-timescales. The findings support the view that the encoding and modeling of rapidly modulated auditory spectro-temporal properties can rely on a temporo-cerebellar interface. We discuss these findings in view of the conjecture that proactive adaptation to a dynamic environment via internal models is a generalizable principle.
You can find the article here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/67303
Lab members contributing: Sonja Kotz and Michael Schwartze
New paper alert!
Who doesn’t love a musician’s brain?
In our new paper, we are discussing the: “Neural Tracking of Speech: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Influences in the Musician’s Brain”. What is so special about musicians’ brains and how might that affect speech processing. We connect to previous literature on speech processing models and how musical expertise might modulate language-related networks of the human brain.
Fresh from the press https://www.jneurosci.org/content/41/31/6579
BAND-lab members contributing: Katerina Kandylaki and Antonio Criscuolo
This project was conducted in collaboration with Simon Rigoulot, Melissa Kadi and Simone Dalla Bella at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS) in Montreal, Canada.
We investigated EEG responses to auditory oddball sequences that had an isochronous or random inter-stimulus interval (ISI), while comparing younger with older adults.
We found that the P50 distinguishes between isochrounous and random standard tones in the younger adult group, but not in the older one.
Sonja will be a speaker in a virtual “Tinnitus mini-symposium” on July 8 (16-18h CEST). The other speakers are Prof. Holger Schulze on “Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Tinnitus Development” and Dr. Minke van de Berge on “Tinnitus and Auditory Brainstem Stimulation”. The scientific symposium will take place online and is organised in collaboration with Maastricht University, Zuyderland and MUMC+. The targeted audience are audiologists, ENT specialists, researchers, psychologists and other professionals interested in tinnitus.
Registration is free, but required. Here is the link where you can register: https://tinyurl.com/tinnitussymposium
You can find more information about the speakers here:
Sonja was recently interviewed (in German) as part of a series “Kunst trifft Wissenschaft”, where she talked about the human sense of rhythm: why it affects our perception and action and influences cognitive processes.
Check it out: https://fb.watch/5TdIw_AqOQ/
Thema: Gehirn + Kunstkonsum mit Prof. Dr. Sonja Kotz (Maastricht) & Stefanie Hauser
Our new paper discusses the role of the medial geniculate nucleus (MGB) in tinnitus, while reflecting on animal and human studies. Tinnitus is prevalent in 10-15% in the general population and its underlying mechanism still remains elusive. Here we propose a more general aproach of adaptive sensory gating and temporal processing along the auditory pathway that might add to the thalamo-cortical dysrhythmia profile of tinnitus.
Curious? Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-021-02284-x
What does it mean to be a neuropsychologist?
To answer that question better for you, Sonja Kotz had an interview UM student ambassador extramile_jenny! Please find the interview here.
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