Say it to understand it! How production shapes speech comprehension.

Comprehension is rarely passive. In real life, we listen because we intend to respond, to answer a question, continue a conversation, or signal understanding. Yet the overwhelming majority of studies ask participants to do precisely nothing: sit still, listen to a story, answer a few questions at the end. Whether this unnatural setup distorts the … Read more

Can your eyes listen?

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