Dr Martin Vestergaard
University position
Research Associate
Departments
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Institutes
Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing
Home page
http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/cnbh/mdv/ (personal home page)
Research Themes
Interests
I investigate relationships among theoretical constructs of vocal communication in humans. I use psychophysical paradigms in behavioural studies of auditory perception and brain imaging techniques to identify indices of the early stages of auditory processing.
Research Focus
Keywordshearing psychoacoustics auditory perception speech object normalization |
Clinical conditionsDeafness Hearing and balance deficits Menierre's disease Phonagnosia |
Equipment
Behavioural analysis
Computational modelling
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Collaborators
Cambridge | United KingdomSue Denham Web: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/d... Katrin Krumbholz Web: http://www.ihr.mrc.ac.uk/staff/i... InternationalIstwan Winkler Web: http://www.cogpsyphy.hu/~iwinkler/ |
Key publications
Hailstone JC, Crutch SJ, Vestergaard MD, Patterson RD, Warren JD (2010), “Progressive associative phonagnosia: a neuropsychological analysis.” Neuropsychologia 48(4):1104-14 Details
Vestergaard MD, Fyson NR, Patterson RD (2009), “The interaction of vocal characteristics and audibility in the recognition of concurrent syllables.” J Acoust Soc Am 125(2):1114-24 Details
Vestergaard MD, Háden GP, Shtyrov Y, Patterson RD, Pulvermüller F, Denham SL, Sziller I, Winkler I (2009), “Auditory size-deviant detection in adults and newborn infants.” Biol Psychol 82(2):169-75 Details
Vestergaard MD (2003), “Dead regions in the cochlea: implications for speech recognition and applicability of articulation index theory.” Int J Audiol 42(5):249-61 Details
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