Quirin Gehmacher

Jun 30, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Juliane Schubert |Quirin Gehmacher |Fabian Schmidt |Thomas Hartmann

AbstractAuditory speech comprehension is a multi-faceted process in which attention, prediction, and sensorimotor integration (via active sensing) interact with or complement each other. Although different conceptual models that focus on one of these aspects exist, we still lack a unified understanding of their role in speech processing.

Apr 30, 2024 | nature.com | Quirin Gehmacher |Fabian Schmidt |Thomas Hartmann |Patrick Reisinger |Sebastian Rösch |Tzvetan Popov | +1 more

AbstractOver the last decades, cognitive neuroscience has identified a distributed set of brain regions that are critical for attention. Strong anatomical overlap with brain regions critical for oculomotor processes suggests a joint network for attention and eye movements. However, the role of this shared network in complex, naturalistic environments remains understudied. Here, we investigated eye movements in relation to (un)attended sentences of natural speech.