Björn Herrmann

The study examines how eye movements and pupil size reflect listening effort across easy, difficult, and impossible speech comprehension in noisy environments.

This study examines how external and internal distractions reduce neural speech tracking in background noise using EEG experiments.

This study examines how neural activity during story listening changes with background noise, finding increased individual variability in auditory regions and shared patterns in effort-related networks, along with event-boundary responses unaffected by noise.

This study validates mobile eye-tracking glasses for measuring listening effort by comparing them to a stationary system in a controlled task.

This study shows that eye movements decrease with increasing speech masking during continuous story listening in both younger and older adults, suggesting they can assess listening effort.

This study examines how background noise affects neural speech tracking in younger and older adults, finding age-related differences in noise's impact on speech comprehension.

The paper examines how aging affects neural tracking of musical features and tempo sensitivity, finding enhanced feature tracking but reduced tempo sensitivity in older adults.

The paper investigates how motivational state affects cognitive investment during demanding listening by analyzing pupil size and MEG data in an auditory gap-detection task.

The paper shows that minimal background noise enhances neural speech tracking in EEG experiments, supporting stochastic resonance as a mechanism.

This study compares pupil size and eye movement dispersion as measures of mental effort in younger and older adults during speech comprehension tasks.

This study assesses the reliability and generalizability of neural speech tracking in younger and older adults, finding moderate reliability and moderate generalization across stories.

This study investigates how pupil size responds to listening demand and motivational state during an auditory task, finding that pupil size reflects their interaction and predicts behavior.

The paper investigates how the brain encodes and maintains repeating sound structures despite temporal interruptions, finding that auditory cortex responds similarly to reoccurring noise snippets even after brief discontinuation.

The paper demonstrates that eye movements decrease during effortful speech listening, offering a new objective measure of listening effort compared to pupillometry.

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.

This study examines how pupil size and neural alpha oscillations respond to cognitive demand in audio-visual tasks, finding they show different sensitivities and dynamics.

This study examines age-related differences in neural responses to amplitude and frequency modulations in sound, finding greater synchronization but reduced sustained activity in older adults.

This study examines how neural activity related to auditory attention changes with age, showing differences in brain regions and timing strategies between younger and older adults during listening tasks.

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

This study shows human brainstem response latency adapts to sound-level context over tens of milliseconds, with sensitivity decreasing as integration time widens.

This study shows that older adults have reduced sustained neural activity in auditory cortex when processing sound patterns, compared to younger adults, which may explain age-related hearing difficulties.

The paper shows that sustained neural activity latency reflects rapid perceptual learning of auditory patterns, while magnitude may reflect learning outcomes like better prediction.

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.

This study uses a novel stimulus and EEG to assess neural function at multiple stages of the auditory pathway simultaneously in normal-hearing adults, revealing distinct subcortical and cortical responses to frequency modulation.

The paper investigates how sound-level statistics influence neural responses and perceptual sensitivity using EEG and behavioral experiments, finding that neural adaptation and prediction-error processing both play roles.

This study investigates how aging, Parkinson’s disease, and dopamine treatment affect auditory regularity processing using EEG, finding age-related declines and dopaminergic therapy reducing sustained neural responses.

This study shows pupil dilation increases with semantic ambiguity and acoustic interference during speech comprehension tasks.

The paper investigates alpha oscillations in human non-primary auditory cortex using electrode recordings from epilepsy patients, finding that alpha activity is suppressed during speech processing in a specific region.

This study investigates how aging affects neural processing of temporal regularity in sounds, finding increased cortical gain and reduced sustained activity in older adults.

The paper examines how properties of alpha oscillations in EEG data correlate with oral language ability in young children.