Sara Carta

Simultaneous cortical tracking of competing speech streams during attention switching

This study uses EEG to track neural responses to competing speech streams during attention switches, revealing asymmetric engagement and disengagement processes and lexical context resets.

Are you talking to me? How the choice of speech register impacts listeners' hierarchical encoding of speech.

This study examines how different speech registers, specifically Foreigner-Directed Speech (FDS), affect the cortical encoding of speech in L2 learners and L1 listeners, finding enhanced encoding at multiple processing levels for FDS in L2 learners.

Cortical over-representation of phonetic onsets of ignored speech in hearing impaired individuals

This study investigates how hearing-impaired individuals process ignored speech in noisy environments using EEG, finding over-representation of phonetic onsets in ignored speech.

Task-dependent and automatic tracking of hierarchical linguistic structure

The paper investigates how the brain tracks linguistic structure at different timescales during passive listening and task performance, finding automatic phrasal-rate tracking and task-specific effects in the inferior frontal gyrus.