Adam Tierney

I am a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London. No longer posting or reading here, find me on Bluesky (

[Imaging Neuroscience @ImagingNeurosci]

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Magdalena Kachlicka, Adam T. Tierney, et al:

Tone language experience enhances dimension-selective attention and subcortical encoding but not cortical entrainment to pitch

https://t.co/Y006mC1xD2

[Auditory Neuroscience Lab @audioneurolab]

What factors determine the importance placed on different sources of evidence during speech and music perception?🧠💬👂🎶 New research by @mkachlicka @aesymons @KazuyaSLA Fred Dick @AdamTTierney https://t.co/k0Cy6HBQ80 #auditory #neuroscience @bbkpsychology @ImagingNeurosci 🧵1/4

[Magdalena Kachlicka @mkachlicka.bsky.social @mkachlicka]

⏰CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS⏰ I'm looking for London-based #participants who would like to take part in an fMRI study and gain insight into how our brains process second language speech 🧠🧠🧠#auditory #neuroscience @bbkpsychology @BirkbeckUoL @bbkpsychosocial Please share!

[Pat Savage (@PatrickESavage.bsky.social) @PatrickESavage]

New preprint up describing our planned #RegisteredReport Stage 1 protocol building on @Many_Voices_ 1. In Many Voices 2, we aim to collect data from 1,500 people around the world singing/speaking in groups to directly test the social bonding hypothesis
https://t.co/t0RDAy7cOI

[Auditory Neuroscience Lab @audioneurolab]

⏰CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS⏰ We're looking for London-based #participants who would like to take part in an fMRI study and gain insight into how our brains process second language speech 🧠🧠🧠 #auditory #neuroscience @bbkpsychology @BirkbeckUoL @bbkpsychosocial Please share!

[PLOS Biology @PLOSBiology]

How do we distinguish between music & speech? Using judgments on artificial ambiguous noise clips, @candrew123 @davidpoeppel &co show that our #auditory system relies on basic acoustic parameters like amplitude modulation rates & regularities #PLOSBiology https://t.co/jeJJbIqaed

[Pat Savage (@PatrickESavage.bsky.social) @PatrickESavage]

Our "Many Voices" 75-author collaboration led by @YutoOzaki1 finding global regularities in music-speech relationships is now out on the cover of @ScienceAdvances: https://t.co/5WHZiNt4hQ
Full video of 18 coauthors singing/speaking in our own languages at https://t.co/XvxdgT2PEP

[Kazuya Saito @KazuyaSLA]

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - our neuroscience team led by @mkachlicka looking for second language speakers based in London!

[Elisa R Ferre @ElisaRFerre]

📢 Exciting news!

@bbkpsychology is looking for 2 T&R Lecturers to join our School.

We're particularly keen on expertise in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational modelling. 🧠

https://t.co/rLQG0yb8yI

Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to know more!

[Cognition @CognitionJourn]

Tone-language and non-tone-language speakers show several similarities in an auditory illusion where certain spoken phrases, when looped, start to sound like singing, suggesting consistencies in how human minds distinguish speech and song

https://t.co/dUwnNfaMmL

[Anna Kasdan @annakasdan]

hello? is anyone still on here? if so, check out a fun project I did with @ilizabutera and team on the speech-to-song illusion in cochlear implant users! #musicscience https://t.co/PFYHXBWis2

[Auditory Neuroscience Lab @audioneurolab]

⏰New paper⏰@KazuyaSLA & team @mkachlicka @Szkda89 @Ingrid_MP_ YaoyaoRuan @AdamTTierney ask whether and to what degree the composite model of acuity, attention, and integration can increase the predictive power of auditory processing for L2 learning https://t.co/HJu5wlEQGy 🧵1/5

[Auditory Neuroscience Lab @audioneurolab]

Is listening performance bound to the specific characteristics of musical instrument training or other types of auditory expertise? Check https://t.co/bJcEK2g71z led by Francesco Caprini with @sijiazhao92 @mariachait Trevor Angus, Urlich Pomper, Fred Dick, and @AdamTTierney 🧵1/5

[Auditory Neuroscience Lab @audioneurolab]

#preprint alert!🚨Can experience with the statistical regularities of speech and music increase the salience of informative dimensions within a given domain? Check https://t.co/saYoAChmw1 by @aesymons and team @mkachlicka Raha Razin, Emily Wright, Fred Dick @AdamTTierney 🧵1/5

[Auditory Neuroscience Lab @audioneurolab]

Our lab's ⏰ new paper ⏰ by Katya Petrova, Kyle Jasmin @KazuyaSLA @AdamTTierney https://t.co/G3b50INvue examined how length of residence in an L2 environment modifies perceptual strategies for suprasegmental categorization 🧵 1/4

[Auditory Neuroscience Lab @audioneurolab]

Here's the 2nd #conferenceposter from our lab presented at @SNLmtg by @mkachlicka https://t.co/fe7RIm2YXZ What factors determine the importance placed on different sources of evidence during speech and music perception? 🧵1/5

[Auditory Neuroscience Lab @audioneurolab]

Missed @SNLmtg in Marseille? Check #conferenceposter 1/2 presented by @aesymons https://t.co/LCBFo7TUqT 👂🔊🧑‍🎤Can distracting sounds or dynamic changes in natural speech capture listeners' attention and affect their behaviour? It seems so! 🧵1/5

[Birkbeck, University of London @BirkbeckUoL]

On this day in 1823 the London Mechanics’ Institute, which later went on to become Birkbeck University, was founded.

Happy 200th Anniversary Birkbeck.

Changing lives since 2 December 1823.

Read more: https://t.co/MBUeOiUxuw #Birkbeck200

[Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences @bbkpsychology]

🎉🎉Huge congratulations to @AdamTTierney for being conferred as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience! @BirkbeckScience Prof Tierney's research in the School focuses on perception, attention and language acquision. Read more about his work at the ALPHA lab: https://t.co/S3733AM3za

[Auditory Neuroscience Lab @audioneurolab]

Thursday 16/11 at 4:00 pm 🔊🧠🎶 Join us as Prof @AdamTTierney gives a talk at @SHaPS_UCL about "Perception of ambiguous sounds reveals the diversity of human perception" For info on how to join see: https://t.co/frFZx2CYxo