Month: July 2019

Perfect timing: Making the ‘switch’ from juvenile to adult

Very little is known about how the onset of puberty is controlled in humans, but the discovery of a new gene in the roundworm C. elegans could be the ‘missing link’ that determines when it’s time to make this juvenile-to-adult transition. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a […]

Published on July 3, 2019

Self‐Priming in Production: Evidence for a Hybrid Model of Syntactic Priming

Abstract Syntactic priming in language production is the increased likelihood of using a recently encountered syntactic structure. In this paper, we examine two theories of why speakers can be primed: error‐driven learning accounts (Bock, Dell, Chang, & Onishi, 2007; Chang, Dell, & Bock, 2006) and activation‐based accounts (Pickering & Branigan, 1999; Reitter, Keller, & Moore, […]

Published on July 3, 2019

Auditory Stream Segregation Can Be Modeled by Neural Competition in Cochlear Implant Listeners

Auditory stream segregation is a perceptual process by which the human auditory system groups sounds from different sources into perceptually meaningful elements (e.g. a voice or a melody). The perceptual segregation of sounds is important, for example, for the understanding of speech in noisy scenarios, a particularly challenging task for listeners with a cochlear implant […]

Published on July 3, 2019