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Department of Comparative Language Science Evolutionary Neuroscience of Language Group

Evolutionary Neuroscience of Language Group

Group Evolutionary Neuroscience of Language

 

Martin Meyer and his group are interested in all aspects of the relationship between brain and language. We ask how (spoken) language is used to understand the brain, and how the brain is used to understand (spoken) language. Using the full arsenal of modern neuroimaging approaches, we have investigated how right and left hemispheres contribute to decoding and understanding spoken utterances. In particular, we are interested in the influences of different forms of hearing loss and brain atrophy on the neuroplasticity of speech comprehension in different languages. Currently, we are working on a model of the evolutionary properties and origins of prosody and speech rhythm and their links to neural circuits of the motor system and aim to fathom the neural underpinning of structure planning during language production. Another area of our research examines the basis and treatment options for central hearing disorders, particularly chronic subjective tinnitus and its limiting effect on speech understanding and everyday communication.

 

 

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Interdisciplinary Tinnitus Research Zurich

Interdisciplinary Tinnitus Research Zurich

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Neuschwander, Schmitt, Jagoda, Kurthen, Giroud & Meyer (2023). Different neuroanatomical correlates for temporal and spectral supra-threshold auditory tasks and speech in noise recognition in older adults with hearing impairment. European Journal of Neuroscience 57, 981-1002. Link

Award

Oxford Wave Research Prize

Our team member Valeriia Perepelytsia has been awarded with the Oxford Wave Research Prize (best presentation in Automatic Speaker Recognition/Acoustics Presentation) at the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics Conference at Charles University University in Prague in July 2022.

Group News

01.03.2022 Basil Preisig has joined the ENL team as a Senior Researcher. He is accompanied by PhD Student Natalia Furtidinova and Research and Teaching Assistant Anouk Glättli. Welcome!