Martina Berto

Hemispheric asymmetries in auditory cortex reflect discriminative responses to temporal details or summary statistics of stationary sounds.

This study uses MEG to show that auditory cortex hemispheres specialize in processing local sound features versus summary statistics, with right hemisphere involvement in both and left hemisphere engagement in summary statistics for long sounds.

Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants

This study examines neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants, finding resilience in early auditory processing but vulnerability in higher-level speech processing.

Early visual cortex tracks speech envelope in the absence of visual input

The paper shows that early visual cortex tracks speech envelope without visual input, with effects modulated by noise and semantic content.

Distinguishing fine structure and summary representation of sound textures from neural activity

This study distinguishes neural coding for local and summary representations of sound textures using EEG and computational models.

Interactions between auditory statistics processing and visual experience emerge only in late development

This study shows that auditory statistics processing and visual experience interact only in late development, with congenitally blind individuals showing normal auditory processing but late-onset blind individuals showing impaired local feature processing.