Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), Brain and Mind Institute Postdoctoral Collaborative Research Grants, summary of my 2016 Hearing Research paper, Frequency Following Response (FFR) workshop. I just thought about how much I had to learn from her and how much she knew that I didn't". Theres a groupof us each year in MOJO who want to run a marathon and our coach writes the plan, and then Em and I just choose the route each week, keep the pace steady, give the girls advice, look after the ones who struggle, and try to calm down those at the front so they dont go too fast. Equipped with an appropriate generative model, our Bayesian agent scored 100% correct on the task. Designed and built by Bopgun. I recently talked about our work on familiar voices with Wilf from Watercooler.FM. The 18-year old beauty I love seeing other people achieve their goals for these girls to run their first marathon is amazing and it is giving something back. This suggests the pattern of fMRI responses in these areas reflects the benefit to intelligibility rather than familiarity per se. You can read about this project and other exciting projects of the MLAL group online in the Spring 2016 newsletter. "When we saw the catwalk we were absolutely convinced Emma was the best," says Barnes. Last night Emma Holmes was crowned the winner of Sky Living and Naomi Campbell's modelling show The Face - a show that's been such a huge hit it led to Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model being canned in favour of the series. She has a really original look with unique, strong eyes which is great for a mascara campaign. Hearing-impaired children showed a reduced ability to prepare spatial attention compared to normally-hearing children. Im looking forward to presenting some new unpublished data, and catching up with colleagues. We found that being familiar with a voice provides a speech intelligibility benefit as large as spatially separating maskers by +/-15 degrees. "I am so proud of my Emma," said Campbell. The paper can be viewed online here. Difficulties with speech-in-noise perception related to fundamental grouping processes in auditory cortex. To that aim, we tested intelligibility of familiar and unfamiliar voices with a variety of maskers. Max Factor make-up artist Caroline Barnes said:When we saw the catwalk we were absolutely convinced that Emma was the best. Enjoy! By contrast, large changes in vocal tract length reduced the intelligibility of familiar voices, but completely eliminated the ability to recognise a friends voice as familiar. Ive just moved 10 minutes down the road from Queens Square to my new office in Chandler House. Two Different Ways Familiar Voice Information Can Be Used, http://www.sfn.org/Meetings/Neuroscience-2018/Sessions-and-Events, https://www.med.upenn.edu/apan/assets/user-content/documents/apan2018/APAN_2018_talks_abstracts.pdf, https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/familiar-voices.html, https://mediarelations.uwo.ca/2018/10/01/familiar-someones-voice-help-us-understand-theyre-saying/, Familiar voices are more intelligible, even if they are not recognized as familiar, 2nd Cambridge Representational Similarity Analysis and Advanced Computational Methods Workshop, Cueing listeners to attend to a target talker progressively improves word report as the duration of the cue-target interval lengthens to 2000 ms. Semantic context reduces sentence-by-sentence listening effort for listeners with hearing impairment. The volunteers reported that they find it difficult to listen in noisy places, andas well as their help designing the animationsI learnt a lot about their experiences and preferences and really enjoyed getting to know them. The firstpublished in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Appliedlooked at the familiar-voice benefit to speech intelligibility among people of different ages. The most famous modelling competition on TV has taken its final steps, and the statuesque winner of this years season is half Jamaican, half Dutch, Emma Holmes. Unlike classic RSA approaches, this paper describes a method for using standard variational inference procedures to quantify the contributions of particular patterns to the data. The sessions are free to register for, and theres an Early Career discussion a week today. Overall, our results demonstrate that the benefit to speech intelligibility from a naturally familiar (compared to unfamiliar) voice differs under different masking conditions. We currently dont know why this is, or what causes this difficulty. We found common processes for figure-ground and speech-in-noise perception in auditory cortex: When the two tasks were more difficult, we found evidence for common disinhibition (implying an increase in gain) at the earliest stages of the auditory cortical hierarchy, including left primary auditory cortex. We trained participants with three different voices for different lengths of time. If youd like to find out more about this work, the paper is available here: Holmes, E., Parr, T., Griffiths, T. D., & Friston, K. J. The Pint of Science festival takes place every year at locations all around the world, but this is the first year that the festivals being held in London Ontario. In both experiments, we found no benefit to intelligibility when the familiar voice was the masker. Holmes, E., Zeidman, P., Friston, K. J., & Griffiths, T. D. (in press). It wasnt Emmas first foray into modelling, she had already had some experience with catwalk and advertising. These stimuli consist of rapidly presented chords of pure tones. The 18-year old beauty was picked out by Max Factor judges Caroline Barnes and Scott Bradley for her unique beauty and similarities to Mr Max Factors original 1920s muse, Marlene Dietrich. WebShe competed in the International Modeling and Talent Association by singing, dancing, and reciting a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). The Stories to Read On Clean Energy. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2016.04.007. With three marathons and an ultra on her running CV, Emma also volunteers as a Run Leader around her hometown of Sevenoaks, Kent. Create account. The way she makes every one of her 'girls' make notes when she's talking!) If youre not in Canada, you can listen online. Psychological science 29 (10), 1575-1583, 2018. Since auditory attention is crucial for separating simultaneous speech, we tested the hypothesis that auditory attention is atypical in hearing-impaired children. Photographer This International Womens Day, Im feeling grateful for all the amazing female mentors Ive had, who have given me advice, confidence, and support over the years. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa311. Im looking forward to meeting everyone at the MPI and giving my talk tomorrow in a session on models of cognition. I admire her determination and work ethic so much. This enables us to use Parameteric Empirical Bayes to test for consistent effects across participants, and Bayesian Model Comparison to test hypotheses about condition-specific effects. Representational similarity analysis (RSA) is often used to quantify the similarity of multivariate activity between experimental conditions. _g1.setAttribute('src', _g1.getAttribute('data-src') ); Web1,953 Followers, 1,200 Following, 2,439 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Emma Holmes (@emmaholmez) We caught up with her the day after shed run the Lydd 20 to find out more about her running, and how she mixes modelling and marathons. My husband ran the marathon in 2012 and we had a bit of banter would I ever start running? Each participant heard sentences spoken by their friend and sentences spoken by the friends of other participants, who they did not know. Nature Scientific Reports, 9, 16771. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53353-5, Weve created some new auditory figure-ground stimuli, which we tested in listeners with normal hearing. I found these types of scripts useful for my voice familiarity work, in which I manipulated the pitch of sentences spoken by a large number of talkers (e.g., Holmes et al., 2018, Psych Science; Holmes et al., 2020, JEP LMC). When the target voice was familiar, the spatial pattern of brain activity for the sentence+masker more closely resembled the same sentence presented alone, than when the target voice was unfamiliar. As usual, the conference was packed with interesting research and it was difficult to see everything in the time available! I love longer races because theyre more sociable. Yet, we can better understand words spoken by our friends and family members than the same words spoken by a stranger. If familiarity with timbre improves pitch discrimination, we should have found the best performance for natural instrument timbres. Cerebral Cortex. (2017). The annual Speech in Noise (SpiN) meeting seems to grow every year! Pitch discrimination is better for synthetic timbre than natural musical instrument timbres, despite familiarity, 3rd Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology, 2022 Geraldine Dietz Fox Young Investigator Award, Active inference, selective attention, and the cocktail party problem, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.038, Symposium on Cognitive Auditory Neuroscience, Musicianship and melodic predictability enhance neural gain in auditory cortex during pitch deviance detection, Department of Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences at UCL, Speech-evoked brain activity is more robust to competing speech when it is spoken by someone familiar, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118107, How long does it take for a voice to become familiar? Our new paper has just been published online in JARO. Today, I entered the Three Minute Research competition for postdocs at Western University. We always presented a competing stimulus at the same time: it was either a different talker speaking a sentence in the same language as the target (English), a different talker speaking a sentence in a language that was incomprehensible to the listener (Spanish or Russian), or unintelligible noise (constructed from the sentences presented in the other conditions). Our new paper in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics is now available online. If you follow my research, you might remember that we recently developed some auditory figure-ground tests that measure fundamental auditory grouping processes. Response times for reporting words spoken by the target talker became significantly shorter as the duration of the cue-target interval increased from 0 to 2 seconds. The tests might also be useful for predicting speech outcomes early after someone has received a cochlear implant, and we are currently testing this with our collaborators in Iowa. But my modeling didnt start then I went to university and then took it up full time when I finished my degree at 21. found running really hard at first. Come and say hello if youre around. I remember standing there underwear thinking, 'I am standing in a room wearing only underwear in a room full of supermodels.' Cortex. Ultimately, we hope that these new tests might be useful as a cognitive audiogram that could be used alongside existing measures in the clinic. Im on my way home from the 2nd Cambridge Representational Similarity Analysis and Advanced Computational Methods Workshop and its been a fantastic two days. Thanks to everyone involved and congratulations to the other Rising Stars. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.07.005. This fits with our previous work showing that a familiar voice doesnt need to be recognisable to benefit intelligibility. This document has since been published as The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866 by the Louisiana University Press. She taught me that you can always work harder. Normal hearing thresholds and fundamental auditory grouping processes predict difficulties with speech-in-noise perception. You can read the full paper here: Domingo, Y., Holmes, E., Macpherson, E., & Johnsrude, I. S. (2019). We found that people who are worse at grouping sounds are more likely to experience difficulty hearing in noisy places. Training is going the right way. Our new paper has just been published online in the International Journal of Audiology. Sector: If it's easier, just call us: Sometimes, the figure had a gap in the middle, and other times it didnt. var _g1; Tomorrow, Ill be talking about a new model for generating and recognising speech (Active Listening; PD 7), and on Sunday Ill be presenting some fMRI work showing common neural substrates for figure-ground and speech-in-noise perception (PS 286). But she said she didn't want to model because it wasn't challenging enough. I enjoyed the symposium this afternoon on Hearing in Aging, featuring talks by two of my previous lab-mates (at different times)Adele Goman and Bjrn Herrmann. Ive created a video to describe the project and to showcase our new animations, which you can watch on YouTube at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91IwZFW613A. Instead, the interaction reflected better thresholds for artificial flat-spectrum complex tones in flautists and trumpeters, but not in violinists (who showed a non-significant trend in the same direction). Holmes, E., Folkeard, P., Johnsrude, I. S., & Scollie, S. (2018). "Not only is she uniquely beautiful, she's also bright, and I think you will have seen how much she developed throughout the series. (2021). Semantic context reduces sentence-by-sentence listening effort for listeners with hearing impairment. We hope that our tests might be useful in the future for assessing this type of difficulty, which is not well assessed by current clinical tests. Human Brain Mapping. And its taught me to respect each of the distances, Ive worked out Im more of an endurance runner. In ohns view, Anaheim can serve as a model of a district that is doing things right. ", 5 Key Signs That Indicate Youre Going Through The Menopause, Calling Kate Middleton! Furthermore, even when explicit recognition of familiar voices was eliminated, they were still more intelligible than unfamiliar voicesdemonstrating that familiar voices do not need to be explicitly recognized to benefit intelligibility. Most previous experiments investigating endogenous visual and/or auditory attention have not tested cue-target intervals as long as 2 seconds, yet we found a significant improvement in performance between cue-target intervals of 1 and 2 seconds. At Womens Running, were proud of the fact that we use real runners on our covers. We first created a generative model under which a synthetic agent could perform the task accurately. The stunning 18-year old beauty was picked out by Max Factor judges Caroline Barnes and Scott Bradley for her unique beauty and similarities to Mr Max Factors original 1920s muse, Marlene Dietrich. Ive created a demo video containing some example stimuli, which is available here: https://youtu.be/Q19E8cOQWkU. Podcasts are great. The organisers, therefore, split the planned day into four smaller sessions, to be interspersed and held online throughout 2021. In our paper, we consider speech recognition as a Bayesian inference problem (based on active inference). Today marks 4 years since my PhD viva. In the same session, I talked about some of my recent work on the voice cues that enable us to understand and recognise speech spoken by familiar talkers (such as a good friend or partner). 13K followers. Abigail Dillen President, Earthjustice. Participants had to detect a pattern (the figure) in the stimuli, in which the tones stayed the same frequency at adjacent chords. Three of the sessions have already taken place: I attended them all and thoroughly enjoyed every session. We recruited pairs of friends who had known each other for longer than 6 months. On Monday, Ill be receiving the 2022 Geraldine Dietz Fox Young Investigator Award and giving a short overview of my previous research in the awards ceremony. For example, Ive made available the code I wrote to calculate Phase Coherence and an analysis method I developed for estimating the dissimilarity in source locations between two conditions (termed Source Dissimilarity Index). Next week, Ill be appearing on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)stay tuned for details! This week, two of our papers on voice familiarity were published online. WebBut when model and marathon runner Emma Holmes wrote to us to point out that models are real women, too, we invited her to star on our June cover and to tell us what she Johnsrude, I., Holmes, E., & Deeks, J. This was based on a generative model of word repetition, which consisted of a default premorbid system and an alternative (less effective) system that could produce the same outcomeand active inference, which assumes that behaviour is Bayes optimal. Both papers address the problem of how we understand what someones saying in noisy places, such as cafes, restaurants, and pubs. If youd like to read more about this research, heres a link to the paper: Holmes, E., Domingo, Y., & Johnsrude (2018). People with hearing impairment are known to find listening to speech particularly difficult and effortful when reverberant noise is present. He conducted the DCM analyses while he was visiting us at UCL. The ability to hear speech in noisy places varies widely among people (see Holmes & Griffiths, 2019). Johan Carlins talk was also very insightful, showing how differences in mean activity can influence the structure of multi-dimensional scaling output in surprising ways. Ive recently edited the scripts so that theyre more general, which will hopefully mean that theyre useful to other researchers. M Lad, S Kumar, E Holmes, B McMurray, EA Maguire, Neuron 108 (3), 401-412, 2020. Mike Holmes made a name for himself in the States with his home renovation TV show Holmes on Homes which aired from 2005 to 2009 and spawned more than 80 episodes. Its also taught me that, even at 39, you can still be really fit and enjoy running and doing well at it. Before you run a 10K race, your mind says OK, this is a 10K race and you cross the line and cant take another step, but when you do a half-marathon its the same principle. She brings something different and fresh to Max Factor. We couldnt agree more and expect great things from the lovely Emma. EMMA HOLMES has been crowned the winner of Naomi Campbell's model talent show, The Face - and, perhaps unsurprisingly, she was on the supermodel's team. Drum roll, please as Emma Holmes has just been crowned the winner of Naomi Campbells model talent show and, perhaps not surprisingly, was part of the supermodels team. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 12881304. So we went on the Leader in Running Fitness course with Run England, and weve also done a first aid in running course so were all trained. In this paper, we show that preparing attention for an upcoming talker improves speech intelligibility, with greater benefits when we have longer time to prepare. It turns out there are even neuroscience podcasts too! The results showed that complete damage to the premorbid system engaged the alternative system, which led to an initial drop in performance, but this recovered relatively quickly. We hope that this paper will be a useful starting point for researchers who wish to examine this link empirically. Im honored to be listed among collleagues doing excellent and important research. The figure part consists of a pattern thatif grouped successfullypops out from the background. These results highlight the enormous potential of cognitive factors for improving speech intelligibility and reducing perceived listening effort in noisy acoustic environments. Using spatial release from masking to estimate the magnitude of the familiar-voice intelligibility benefit. I was 19. Im looking forward to presenting my latest fMRI work on How are familiar voices represented in auditory cortex?, catching up with colleagues, and enjoying the beautiful scenery in Banff! WebEmma Holmes was a resident of South Carolina who kept a diary during the American Civil War.This document has since been published as The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866 by the Louisiana University Press. We recruited pairs of friends and romantic couples. These findings demonstrate that sensorineural hearing loss has consequences for central processing, providing a shift in thinking from the traditional view of hearing loss as purely a peripheral phenomenon. Recently, I made the transatlantic move from London Ontario to London England to start a new position at UCL. You can visit the following link to read a media story about this research: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/news/2019/nov/difficulty-hearing-noisy-places-could-be-fault-brain-not-ears, Holmes, E., & Griffiths, T. D. (2019). Specifically, we aimed to investigate whether familiarity with an instrument helps people to perceptually separate (or pull apart) melodies played simultaneously by different instruments, if one of the instruments is familiar. It was one minute run, two minutes walk, and it went from there; I did a 10K first and then a half-marathon, and I thought it would be the only one. Preparing this also reminded me about all the related work weve done on this topic, which should be available in the coming year. The aim of the computition is to convey your research in less than three minutes and engage an audience of non-specialistswith only one PowerPoint slide allowed! Crucially, this differs from previous approaches in the literature: it explicitly considers uncertainty, and the model can generate questions to resolve uncertainty. Today, I found out that my application for an EPS Small Grant was successful and will receive funding! VAT no 918 5617 01, H Bauer Publishing are authorised and regulated for credit broking by the FCA (Ref No. Findings from our recent paper, which was published in Scientific Reports, has been featured in the Daily Mail, in a nice piece written by Victoria Allen. This one has been a long time coming, so its good to see it out! I enjoyed talking to Victoria about our research. Ill present work demonstrating that listeners with moderate hearing loss have impaired selective attention, reasons why speech-in-noise perception varies substantially among people with normal hearing, and how we can utilise knowledge about cognition to improve speech intelligibility. Perhaps, familiarity with particular timbres helps people to perform other tasks, but our results imply it doesnt help with pitch discrimination. After a long journey (that ended up re-routed via Finland), Ive arrived in Leipzig for the IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School. Ill be presenting my new work on modelling attention during cocktail party listening. In this experiment, we presented an visual cue that instructed participants to attend to a talker who was at a target location (left/right) or who was of a target gender (male/female). Thus, even extensive experience listening toand learning to producesounds of a particular timbre, doesnt appear to improve pitch thresholds. Yesterday, I shared some code that I wrote to generate videos, which I have used to standardise speech recordings. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.08.003, Or, you can read coverage of the paper by Fox News here: Hearing loss may cause dementia, study finds. Just focus on yourselfthe best piece of advice Naomi gave me was that you could always do something more to work harder". Moreover, most participants who were unable to recognise their friends voice as familiar when it was manipulated still received a speech intelligibility benefit from this same voice (i.e., participants were better at reporting words in the manipulated familiar voice than the same words in an unfamilar voice, who the participant had never met). Simultaneous auditory agnosia: Systematic description of a new type of auditory segregation deficit following a right hemisphere lesion. Holmes, E., Kitterick, P. T. & Summerfield, A. Q. Emma Holmes has been announced as the winner of The Face. Participants received a greater improvement in speech inteligibility, and similar reduction in listening effort, when they listened to sentences preceeded by a same-topic than different-topic sentence. She attended The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. We found a significant interaction between voice manipulation condition (i.e., manipulations to voice pitch or vocal tract length) and task (i.e., recognition or intelligibility task), confirming that acoustic properties of a voice contribute differently to the ability to recognise a familiar person from their voice and the ability to understand the words that a familiar person is speaking. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google History and Politics university student Emma Holmes, hopes that she will become the new face of Max Factor and will stop at nothing to achieve the prize, including using her unique half-Dutch and half-Jamaican heritage to her advantage. I recommend that everyone has a go at this in the future! The second reason is differences in grouping sounds. My talk, Can you hear me?, is part of the Beautiful Minds session on May 15th. On Monday, Ill be giving a talk at the London Ontario Pint of Science festival. Active inference, selective attention, and the cocktail party problem. We are real people, we do have families, we exercise, we eat well, its not always the glamorous industry that its claimed to be. Publisher Emma even carries around the notebook Campbell gave her to detail all her advice close to hand as she's worried "Naomi's going to call me and ask, 'Have you got it?!'". My favourite is Body Attack, which actually doesnt work well for running because you have to do high kicks, which works the hamstrings differently to running, so I take it very easy but its great fun like going to a disco! Holmes, E., Zeidman, P., Friston, K. J., & Griffiths, T. D. (2021). Emma is also a character Finally, Ive uploaded a script for plotting the results of pure-tone audiograms. Max Factor make-up artist Caroline Barnes and Creative Director Scott Bradley set the final four models tasks including a beauty shoot, cosmetic film and an impressive catwalk with their mentors. Ive doneit for the last two years, its brilliant. At the moment my marathon PB is 3:53, Im aiming for 3:45 and if I get sub 3:45 it would be Good For Age. Today, I enjoyed reading these interviews with women at UCL who are based in the Faculty of Brain Sciences and within the Institute of Neurology: Im also grateful to have had the opporutnity to contribute to Athena SWAN initiatives in departments where Ive worked. All of the posters are available to view already, and most also have a 3-minute video digest, which I think is a great idea (even if I hated recording my own!). 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