Patti Adank
@pattiadank.bsky.social
I like things that are speechy, and brainy. Runs Speech on the Brain lab at UCL.
New preprint: Cloned voices are easier to understand in noise than their human originals: the voice cloning intelligibility benefit (with @hwanguc.bsky.social)
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August 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
New preprint: Cloned voices are easier to understand in noise than their human originals: the voice cloning intelligibility benefit (with @hwanguc.bsky.social)
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NEW PAPER ALERT! In a dual-task-fMRI paradigm, we used machine learning (XGBoost) as a robust and explainable approach to revealing the dissociable task effects on activation patterns for noise-vocoded speech processing in a set of frontotemporal regions that were hidden by inferential statistics🧠😆.
August 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
NEW PAPER ALERT! In a dual-task-fMRI paradigm, we used machine learning (XGBoost) as a robust and explainable approach to revealing the dissociable task effects on activation patterns for noise-vocoded speech processing in a set of frontotemporal regions that were hidden by inferential statistics🧠😆.
Check out our lab's NEW paper, now available: "Neural Processing of Noise-Vocoded Speech Under Divided Attention: An fMRI-Machine Learning Study" #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @hwanguc.bsky.social @rongruc.bsky.social
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August 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Check out our lab's NEW paper, now available: "Neural Processing of Noise-Vocoded Speech Under Divided Attention: An fMRI-Machine Learning Study" #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @hwanguc.bsky.social @rongruc.bsky.social
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What a joyful day to wrap up four and a half amazing years at UCL!
Huge thanks to my brilliant supervisor @pattiadank.bsky.social, the Speech on the Brain Lab, and everyone who’s been part of the ride🤩
UCL has always been—and will always be—a meaningful part of me😝
Huge thanks to my brilliant supervisor @pattiadank.bsky.social, the Speech on the Brain Lab, and everyone who’s been part of the ride🤩
UCL has always been—and will always be—a meaningful part of me😝
July 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
What a joyful day to wrap up four and a half amazing years at UCL!
Huge thanks to my brilliant supervisor @pattiadank.bsky.social, the Speech on the Brain Lab, and everyone who’s been part of the ride🤩
UCL has always been—and will always be—a meaningful part of me😝
Huge thanks to my brilliant supervisor @pattiadank.bsky.social, the Speech on the Brain Lab, and everyone who’s been part of the ride🤩
UCL has always been—and will always be—a meaningful part of me😝
I like this, vibrotactile cross-modal processing in cochlear implant users: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exposure to vibrotactile music improves audiometric performances in individuals with cochlear implants - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Exposure to vibrotactile music improves audiometric performances in individuals with cochlear implants
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June 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I like this, vibrotactile cross-modal processing in cochlear implant users: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Closing tomorrow! Apply for my fully-funded PhD studentship, open to UK students
Deadline extended for my fully-funded #PhD position - apply by 7th May! Come and work with me & join the UCL Cognitive Hearing Lab: bit.ly/3RAEYZ8 The studentship is funded by RNID and will help make noisy environments easier for people with hearing loss
May 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Closing tomorrow! Apply for my fully-funded PhD studentship, open to UK students
Contact @rongruc.bsky.social
📣Participants Needed
🔍 A fun brain stimulation study using tDCS to explore how we process distorted speech.
👂 2 short lab visits (3h total) = £35
📍 UCL Chandler House (WC1N 1PF)
See poster below!
#UCL #BrainResearch #BrainStimulation #PaidStudy #tDCS #CognitiveScience
📣Participants Needed
🔍 A fun brain stimulation study using tDCS to explore how we process distorted speech.
👂 2 short lab visits (3h total) = £35
📍 UCL Chandler House (WC1N 1PF)
See poster below!
#UCL #BrainResearch #BrainStimulation #PaidStudy #tDCS #CognitiveScience
May 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Contact @rongruc.bsky.social
📣Participants Needed
🔍 A fun brain stimulation study using tDCS to explore how we process distorted speech.
👂 2 short lab visits (3h total) = £35
📍 UCL Chandler House (WC1N 1PF)
See poster below!
#UCL #BrainResearch #BrainStimulation #PaidStudy #tDCS #CognitiveScience
📣Participants Needed
🔍 A fun brain stimulation study using tDCS to explore how we process distorted speech.
👂 2 short lab visits (3h total) = £35
📍 UCL Chandler House (WC1N 1PF)
See poster below!
#UCL #BrainResearch #BrainStimulation #PaidStudy #tDCS #CognitiveScience
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Deadline extended for my fully-funded #PhD position - apply by 7th May! Come and work with me & join the UCL Cognitive Hearing Lab: bit.ly/3RAEYZ8 The studentship is funded by RNID and will help make noisy environments easier for people with hearing loss
April 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Deadline extended for my fully-funded #PhD position - apply by 7th May! Come and work with me & join the UCL Cognitive Hearing Lab: bit.ly/3RAEYZ8 The studentship is funded by RNID and will help make noisy environments easier for people with hearing loss
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OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
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March 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Available at doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: A dual task study
Listeners can adapt to noise-vocoded speech under divided attention using a dual task design [Wang, Chen, Yan, McGettigan, Rosen, and Adank, Trends Hear. 27, 23
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March 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Congratulations to Dr Hannah Wilt for passing her PhD viva last week with NO CORRECTIONS. Thanks also to the examiners @salonikrishnan.bsky.social and @gambichiara.bsky.social for making this a great day!
March 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Congratulations to Dr Hannah Wilt for passing her PhD viva last week with NO CORRECTIONS. Thanks also to the examiners @salonikrishnan.bsky.social and @gambichiara.bsky.social for making this a great day!
Paper accepted:
"Automatic imitation of vocal actions is unaffected by group membership",
- to be published in Psychological Research,
- with Hannah Wilt and Tony Trotter
"Automatic imitation of vocal actions is unaffected by group membership",
- to be published in Psychological Research,
- with Hannah Wilt and Tony Trotter
March 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Paper accepted:
"Automatic imitation of vocal actions is unaffected by group membership",
- to be published in Psychological Research,
- with Hannah Wilt and Tony Trotter
"Automatic imitation of vocal actions is unaffected by group membership",
- to be published in Psychological Research,
- with Hannah Wilt and Tony Trotter
I suggest everyone visits our webpage and looks at how beautiful we all are thanks to @carignan.bsky.social 's amazing photography skills ;-) www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...
SHaPS People
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February 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I suggest everyone visits our webpage and looks at how beautiful we all are thanks to @carignan.bsky.social 's amazing photography skills ;-) www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...
New paper accepted with Han Wang, Taylor Hepworth, and Stephanie Borrie, in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America:
"Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: a dual-task study"
"Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: a dual-task study"
February 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
New paper accepted with Han Wang, Taylor Hepworth, and Stephanie Borrie, in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America:
"Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: a dual-task study"
"Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: a dual-task study"
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MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter to Sir Patrick Vallance
To sign the letter, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/eRydV6VpMQVFPtdF7 Please forward a link to this letter to any colleagues who you think may be interested in signing – we would li...
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December 18, 2024 at 12:14 PM
MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Exciting new prepping from my department: Voice deep fakes sound realistic but not (yet) hyperrealistic osf.io/preprints/ps...
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November 27, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Exciting new prepping from my department: Voice deep fakes sound realistic but not (yet) hyperrealistic osf.io/preprints/ps...
We have funded PhD studentships available in Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS) at UCL for UK students only, please contact a potential supervisor in SHaPS to agree on a PhD project first: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...
SHaPS People
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:46 AM
We have funded PhD studentships available in Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS) at UCL for UK students only, please contact a potential supervisor in SHaPS to agree on a PhD project first: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...
I made the leap as well from the platform not to be named, and I should have done so months ago! Here's a picture of Moxie just because #whippets
November 15, 2024 at 2:20 PM
I made the leap as well from the platform not to be named, and I should have done so months ago! Here's a picture of Moxie just because #whippets
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With Bluesky a-hoppin', now's a good time to advertise that faculty (inc. me!) at UConn (both in Language and Cognition and Speech and Hearing) are recruiting PhD students. Fantastic Lang. Sci. community, some cool training grants. psychology.uconn.edu/phd/language...
Language and Cognition | Department of Psychological Sciences
The language and cognition concentration examines neurobiological mechanisms in speech perception, reading, sentence processing, semantic memory, and more.
psychology.uconn.edu
November 15, 2024 at 1:05 PM
With Bluesky a-hoppin', now's a good time to advertise that faculty (inc. me!) at UConn (both in Language and Cognition and Speech and Hearing) are recruiting PhD students. Fantastic Lang. Sci. community, some cool training grants. psychology.uconn.edu/phd/language...
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Dissecting the causal role of early inferior frontal activation in reading www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Does the left pIFC specifically & causally mediate rapid computation of speech motor codes at the earliest stage of reading? Used TMS to investigate
November 15, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Dissecting the causal role of early inferior frontal activation in reading www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Does the left pIFC specifically & causally mediate rapid computation of speech motor codes at the earliest stage of reading? Used TMS to investigate
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Follow the editors! @olivergenschow.bsky.social @craccoemiel.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Follow the editors! @olivergenschow.bsky.social @craccoemiel.bsky.social