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View article: Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication
Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication Open
Face-to-face communication relies on the seamless integration of multisensory signals, including voice, gaze, and head movements, to convey meaning effectively. This poses a fundamental computational challenge: optimally binding signals sh…
View article: Someone else's ears: Metacognitive auditory perspective taking in young and older adults
Someone else's ears: Metacognitive auditory perspective taking in young and older adults Open
Understanding others’ listening experiences is an instance of social metacognition. We investigate attributed listening experiences to fictional others in two online experiments involving two groups, young and older adults with normal hear…
View article: Spatial distance and temporal attentional focus modulate voluntary action preparation and awareness
Spatial distance and temporal attentional focus modulate voluntary action preparation and awareness Open
Peripersonal space (PPS)—the immediate space surrounding the body—modulates perception and motor control. However, its impact on how voluntary actions are initiated and subjectively experienced remains underexplored. Similarly, how directi…
View article: Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking after hearing restoration
Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking after hearing restoration Open
The role of early auditory experience in the development of neural speech tracking remains an open question. To address this issue, we measured neural speech tracking in children with or without functional hearing during their first year o…
View article: Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication
Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication Open
Face-to-face communication relies on the seamless integration of multisensory signals, including voice, gaze, and head movements, to convey meaning effectively. This poses a fundamental computational challenge: optimally binding signals sh…
View article: Action toward sound sources enhances auditory spatial confidence: on the metacognitive consequences of reaching to sounds
Action toward sound sources enhances auditory spatial confidence: on the metacognitive consequences of reaching to sounds Open
View article: Spontaneous postural adjustments reduce perceived listening effort
Spontaneous postural adjustments reduce perceived listening effort Open
View article: Continuous tracking of effort and confidence while listening to speech-in-noise in young and older adults
Continuous tracking of effort and confidence while listening to speech-in-noise in young and older adults Open
View article: The impact of face masks on face-to-face neural tracking of speech: Auditory and visual obstacles
The impact of face masks on face-to-face neural tracking of speech: Auditory and visual obstacles Open
View article: Exploring conceptual representation and grounding through perceptual strength norms in deaf individuals
Exploring conceptual representation and grounding through perceptual strength norms in deaf individuals Open
In this study, our objective was to explore the impact of hearing loss on the conceptual system underlying word meaning. We collected perceptual strength norms for 200 Italian words from early deaf individuals with limited or no access to …
View article: Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants
Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants Open
Infants are born with biological biases that favour language acquisition. One is the auditory system’s ability to track the envelope of continuous speech, a pivotal feature for spoken language comprehension in adulthood. However, the exten…
View article: Distance modulates urgency to act and action awareness
Distance modulates urgency to act and action awareness Open
Peripersonal space (PPS) - the immediate space surrounding our body - is known to enhance perceptual and neural processes. However, whether PPS influences voluntary action initiation and its temporal awareness remains underexplored. In thi…
View article: The impact of face masks on face-to-face neural tracking of speech: auditory and visual obstacles
The impact of face masks on face-to-face neural tracking of speech: auditory and visual obstacles Open
Face masks provide fundamental protection against the transmission of respiratory viruses but hamper communication. We estimated auditory and visual obstacles generated by face masks on communication by measuring the neural tracking of fac…
View article: Spatial hearing training in virtual reality with simulated asymmetric hearing loss
Spatial hearing training in virtual reality with simulated asymmetric hearing loss Open
View article: Training spatial hearing skills in virtual reality through a sound-reaching task
Training spatial hearing skills in virtual reality through a sound-reaching task Open
Sound localization is crucial for interacting with the surrounding world.This ability can be learned across time and improved by multisensory and motor cues.In the last decade, studying the contributions of multisensory and motor cues has …
View article: Sound localization in noisy contexts: performance, metacognitive evaluations and head movements
Sound localization in noisy contexts: performance, metacognitive evaluations and head movements Open
View article: Audiovisual Training in Virtual Reality Improves Auditory Spatial Adaptation in Unilateral Hearing Loss Patients
Audiovisual Training in Virtual Reality Improves Auditory Spatial Adaptation in Unilateral Hearing Loss Patients Open
Unilateral hearing loss (UHL) leads to an alteration of binaural cues resulting in a significant increment of spatial errors in the horizontal plane. In this study, nineteen patients with UHL were recruited and randomized in a cross-over d…
View article: Training spatial hearing in unilateral cochlear implant users through reaching to sounds in virtual reality
Training spatial hearing in unilateral cochlear implant users through reaching to sounds in virtual reality Open
View article: The effect of face masks on sign language comprehension: performance and metacognitive dimensions
The effect of face masks on sign language comprehension: performance and metacognitive dimensions Open
In spoken languages, face masks represent an obstacle to speech understanding and influence metacognitive judgments, reducing confidence and increasing effort while listening. To date, all studies on face masks and communication involved s…
View article: Multimodal processing in face-to-face interactions: A bridging link between psycholinguistics and sensory neuroscience
Multimodal processing in face-to-face interactions: A bridging link between psycholinguistics and sensory neuroscience Open
In face-to-face communication, humans are faced with multiple layers of discontinuous multimodal signals, such as head, face, hand gestures, speech and non-speech sounds, which need to be interpreted as coherent and unified communicative a…
View article: Capturing Visual Attention With Perturbed Auditory Spatial Cues
Capturing Visual Attention With Perturbed Auditory Spatial Cues Open
Lateralized sounds can orient visual attention, with benefits for audio-visual processing. Here, we asked to what extent perturbed auditory spatial cues—resulting from cochlear implants (CI) or unilateral hearing loss (uHL)—allow this auto…
View article: Temporal visual representation elicits early auditory-like responses in hearing but not in deaf individuals
Temporal visual representation elicits early auditory-like responses in hearing but not in deaf individuals Open
View article: Spontaneous head-movements improve sound localization in aging adults with hearing loss
Spontaneous head-movements improve sound localization in aging adults with hearing loss Open
Moving the head while a sound is playing improves its localization in human listeners, in children and adults, with or without hearing problems. It remains to be ascertained if this benefit can also extend to aging adults with hearing-loss…
View article: Benefits of active listening during 3D sound localization
Benefits of active listening during 3D sound localization Open
View article: Reaching to Sounds Improves Spatial Hearing in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users
Reaching to Sounds Improves Spatial Hearing in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users Open
Objectives: We assessed if spatial hearing training improves sound localization in bilateral cochlear implant (BCI) users and whether its benefits can generalize to untrained sound localization tasks. Design: In 20 BCI users, we assessed t…
View article: Adapting to altered auditory cues: Generalization from manual reaching to head pointing
Adapting to altered auditory cues: Generalization from manual reaching to head pointing Open
Localising sounds means having the ability to process auditory cues deriving from the interplay among sound waves, the head and the ears. When auditory cues change because of temporary or permanent hearing loss, sound localization becomes …
View article: Minor second intervals: A shared signature for infant cries and sadness in music
Minor second intervals: A shared signature for infant cries and sadness in music Open
In Western music and in music of other cultures, minor chords, modes and intervals evoke sadness. It has been proposed that this emotional interpretation of melodic intervals (the distance between two pitches, expressed in semitones) is co…
View article: A comparison of simultaneously-obtained measures of listening effort: pupil dilation, verbal response time and self-rating
A comparison of simultaneously-obtained measures of listening effort: pupil dilation, verbal response time and self-rating Open
RT, pupil dilation, and self-ratings can be obtained simultaneously when administering speech perception tasks, even though some limitations remain related to the absence of a retention period after the listening phase. The sensitivity of …
View article: Orienting Auditory Attention through Vision: the Impact of Monaural Listening
Orienting Auditory Attention through Vision: the Impact of Monaural Listening Open
The understanding of linguistic messages can be made extremely complex by the simultaneous presence of interfering sounds, especially when they are also linguistic in nature. In two experiments, we tested if visual cues directing attention…
View article: Spatial Hearing Difficulties in Reaching Space in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Children Improve With Head Movements
Spatial Hearing Difficulties in Reaching Space in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Children Improve With Head Movements Open
Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess three-dimensional (3D) spatial hearing abilities in reaching space of children and adolescents fitted with bilateral cochlear implants (BCI). The study also investigated the impact of spontan…