Anne Hauswald

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status

The paper investigates ocular speech tracking in blind and sighted individuals, finding it is not modulated by speech intelligibility and has two frequency-specific components influenced by visual experience.

Inflexible center-frequency shifts in neural speech tracking are linked to reading and phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia

The paper shows that individuals with developmental dyslexia show reduced flexibility in neural speech tracking frequency shifts in response to speech intelligibility changes, linked to phonological awareness and reading deficits.

Eye Movements in Silent Visual Speech track Unheard Acoustic Signals and Relate to Hearing Experience

This study shows that eye movements track unheard speech during silent lip-reading and relates to hearing experience, with differences between hearing and deaf groups.

Neural speech tracking benefit of lip movements predicts behavioral deterioration when the speaker's mouth is occluded

The paper shows that individual differences in neural speech tracking benefit from lip movements correlate with worse performance when visual speech is blocked by a mask.

Carrier-frequency specific omission-related neural activity in ordered sound sequences are independent of omissions-predictability

The paper investigates whether neural responses to omitted sounds in tone sequences depend on the predictability of omissions, finding that frequency-specific activity occurs independently of omission predictability.

Decreasing hearing ability does not lead to improved visual speech extraction as revealed in a neural speech tracking paradigm

The paper investigates whether reduced hearing ability improves visual speech extraction using a neural speech tracking paradigm and finds no such improvement.

Neural speech tracking shifts from the syllabic to the modulation rate of speech as intelligibility decreases

This study investigates how neural speech tracking shifts from syllable rate to modulation rate as speech intelligibility decreases using magnetoencephalography.

Lip movements and lexical features improve speech tracking differently for clear and multi-speaker speech

This study shows face masks impair audiovisual speech tracking but not audio-only speech, highlighting the role of visual speech in speech processing.

Speech intelligibility changes the temporal evolution of neural speech tracking

This study uses MEG and TRFs to show how speech intelligibility affects the temporal dynamics of neural speech tracking, revealing differential impacts at different time windows.

Cortical tracking of unheard formant modulations derived from silently presented lip movements and its decline with age

The paper investigates how the visual cortex tracks unheard acoustic speech details from lip movements and shows that this ability declines with age, particularly for formant frequencies.

Occlusion of lip movements impairs reconstruction of acoustic speech features and higher-level segmentational features in the presence of a distractor speaker

This study shows that face masks impair neural reconstruction of acoustic speech features and higher-level segmentational features, especially in challenging listening conditions with a distractor speaker.

Degradation levels of continuous speech affect neural speech tracking and alpha power differently

This study investigates how different levels of speech degradation affect neural speech tracking and alpha power using MEG, finding that combined measures better predict speech intelligibility.

Head MagnetoMyography (hMMG): a novel approach to monitor face and whole-head muscular activity

This paper introduces head magnetomyography (hMMG) to monitor whole-head muscular activity, demonstrating its ability to decode stimulus valence and detect previously neglected neck muscle activity.

Visual cortical entrainment to unheard acoustic speech reflects intelligibility of lip movements and is mediated by dorsal stream regions

The paper shows that visual cortex entrains more to forward than backward unheard acoustic speech envelopes during silent lip movements, indicating visuo-phonological mapping and top-down modulation.