Martin Winchester

Exploring the impact of social relevance on the cortical tracking of speech: viability and temporal response characterisation

This study examines how social context affects neural speech tracking using EEG, finding stronger cortical responses to socially relevant speech.

Where is the melody? Spontaneous attention orchestrates melody formation during polyphonic music listening

The paper investigates how spontaneous attention influences melody formation during polyphonic music listening using EEG and transformer models, finding that attentional bias shapes neural encoding and aligns with different theoretical models.

Adaptive Prediction: The Brain Trades Phonemic for Semantic Expectations Under Acoustic Uncertainty

This study investigates how acoustic uncertainty affects speech processing by examining neural responses to speech from single vs. multiple talkers, finding a shift from phonemic to semantic prediction.

Robust assessment of the cortical encoding of word-level expectations using the temporal response function

The paper introduces two new metrics to assess neural encoding of lexical surprise in speech comprehension, showing significantly larger effect sizes than existing methods.