Subject: brain

Perceptual Adaptation to a Speaker’s Voice

Giovanni Di Liberto (email | all projects)

Speech perception is not static. Within seconds of hearing a new voice, the brain begins to adapt. Recent analysis across multiple datasets (Valdes et al., 2025) shows that cortical tracking of the sound acoustics drops markedly within the first 20 seconds of exposure of a familiar voice. However, when listeners encounter a genuinely novel speaker, … Read more

Can your eyes listen?

Giovanni Di Liberto (email | all projects)

By listening to speech and measuring brain activity, we can investigate how different aspects of spoken language are encoded and processed by the brain. However, much less is known about whether eye movements and gaze behaviour also reflect how we listen to and understand speech in complex noisy environments. Recent research suggests that gaze may … Read more