Vanessa C. Irsik

Musical training does not enhance neural sound encoding at early stages of the auditory system: A large-scale multisite investigation

This study investigates whether musical training enhances early auditory neural responses and finds no evidence of such enhancement in a large-scale, multi-site study.

The Effects of Speech Masking on Neural Tracking of Acoustic and Semantic Features of Natural Speech

This study investigates how varying levels of background masking affect neural tracking of acoustic and semantic features during speech listening, finding U-shaped amplitude responses for acoustic features and robust semantic tracking even under severe masking.

Neural activity during story listening is synchronized across individuals despite acoustic masking

The paper investigates neural engagement during story listening under acoustic masking and finds that inter-subject correlation remains stable despite reduced speech intelligibility.

Cortical Responses to the Amplitude Envelopes of Sounds Change with Age

This study investigates how aging affects neural synchronization to amplitude-modulated sounds, finding increased cortical excitability in older adults that alters sensitivity to envelope dynamics.