Trained as a psychologist and acoustic phonetician, I have worked mainly on speech perception, including a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship on acoustic-phonetic contributions to a biologically-plausible theory of how speech is understood. From 2011, I extended my research to music cognition, working on intelligibility of sung texts (often in polyphonic and polytextual settings) and on underpinnings of spontaneous interaction in speech and music. My work emphasises on ecologically appropriate experimental tasks. I do not myself do neuro work, but my interests intersect with those who do.
