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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre

@alexisdeighton.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist @mrccbu.bsky.social JRF at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge ❤️ Vancouver Island, music, running

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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
cleaning up my desktop and found this from my presentation for the Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing book club. Hope you agree, an important discovery and should have put it in my annual grant report #auditoryscience #hearingscience
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This explains why I received 5 different invitations to review wildly non-related manuscripts a couple of weeks ago from Frontiers journals
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@mrccbu.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social @camlangsci.bsky.social @camhearinggroup.bsky.social
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
3) Diverse speech processing strategies vary between individuals, no single "average" listener. Under certain circumstances, this may affect functional outcomes, but to some extent, we are probably doing speech perception our own way most of the time no problem ✨🦻👂
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My take-homes: 1) Speech perception is an active process and listeners flexibly adapt depending on what is available from the signal 2) Acoustic feature encoding is affected by language intelligibility, not just "low-level" factors ...
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Pleased to share our preprint on what encoding of speech features can tell us about comprehension. Applying multiple acoustic and linguistic features within neural PCA, we achieve very high out-of-sample predictive accuracy for behavioural measures of understanding www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Flexible neural encoding predicts the comprehension of degraded speech
How listeners track a variable and continuous acoustic speech signal and parse it into meaningful linguistic representations is a question central to auditory neuroscience. Moreover, the resilience of...
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speechpapers.bsky.social @speechpapers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Flexible neural encoding predicts the comprehension of degraded speech www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Newly published! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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Speech Rhythm in Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant Listening (Chapter 42) - Rhythms of Speech and Language
Rhythms of Speech and Language - May 2026
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Newly accepted 🎉 Decoding of speech acoustics from EEG: Going beyond the amplitude envelope doi.org/10.1088/1741... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social @tobiasgoehring.bsky.social @mrccbu.bsky.social
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Decoding of speech acoustics from EEG: Going beyond the amplitude envelope
Decoding of speech acoustics from EEG: Going beyond the amplitude envelope, MacIntyre, Alexis Deighton, Gaultier, Clément, Goehring, Tobias
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Happy LGBTQ+STEM Day! To mark the occasion, LGBTQ+ and ally scientists alike introduced our new pride flag to the @mrccbu.bsky.social
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
You all know I love the envelope but www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Robust Decoding of Speech Acoustics from EEG: Going Beyond the Amplitude Envelope
During speech perception, properties of the acoustic stimulus can be reconstructed from the listener's brain using methods such as electroencephalography (EEG). Most studies employ the amplitude envel...
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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A momentous occasion: 'Java Man' is going back to Indonesia, along with more than 28,000 other fossils that Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois collected during the colonial era. My story: www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Thrilled’ Indonesian scientists celebrate return of fossil trove from the Netherlands
The items to be returned, which include Java Man, were collected during the colonial era
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"It is the worst when I go to scientific meetings, where fruit experts are meeting, and we are given red delicious apples by the hotel. Gag me with a spoon, man." @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social
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Garbage Fruit [Or, The Fruit of Theseus]
Podcast Episode · Hyperfixed · 25/09/2025 · 33m
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ironic speech-in-noise issues are ubiquitous at auditory science conference poster sessions. I just found out there is a fruit science equivalent
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Garbage Fruit [Or, The Fruit of Theseus]
Podcast Episode · Hyperfixed · 25/09/2025 · 33m
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
LLMs are great for constrained assistive tasks with fully operationalised objectives ✨ (but that is not how they are being sold)
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I fixed it
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The festival of circular reasoning continues
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
That’s a wrap for the Cambridge Speech Decoding workshop 🧠👂🏽thanks for joining! 🦆 @mrccbu.bsky.social
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Finally, @cdaube.bsky.social telling it like it is
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Next up is @hyojinpark.bsky.social on using mutual information analysis to quantify brain-speech correspondence @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We’re now hearing from Nate Zuk on interpreting the TRF - how reliable is it?
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
First talk of the day from Marlies Gillis on encoding and decoding models
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Full house this morning at the @mrccbu.bsky.social for the Cambridge Speech Decoding Workshop @drmattdavis.bsky.social @jremygiroud.bsky.social
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery @acceleratescience.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Alexis Deighton MacIntyre and Lidea Shahidi @mrccbu.bsky.social will explore the experimental control & generative capabilities of state-of-the-art speech synthesis to produce audiological testing materials and conduct evaluation to ensure fit for use in clinical tests to assess speech perception.
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery @acceleratescience.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We are delighted to announce the 2024 Accelerate Science - Cambridge Centre for Data Driven Discovery funded projects. Projects will catalyse discoveries to accelerate scientific progress & create AI tools capable of delivering benefits for science & society. Find out more: bit.ly/4ikKL1b
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Exploring Novel Applications of AI for Research and Innovation – announcing our 2024 funded projects
We are delighted to announce the 13 projects funded through this years’ Accelerate Science and Cambridge Centre for Data Driven Discovery (C2D3) funding call. This year’s call took place over the summ...
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery @acceleratescience.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Looking to develop your career in AI for Science? We are recruiting Machine Learning Engineers to join the Accelerate team, developing and delivering support for researchers across the University of Cambridge using AI in their work. Find out more & apply by 4 March: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50193/
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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s. Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879. Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all. Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years? 1/4
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre @alexisdeighton.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In this Insight for Brain and Neuroscience Advances, I argue that greater cultural diversity within our field will help counter researcher cognitive bias, leading to generative new theories and research directions buff.ly/40DWssK 🌏⚛️🏳️‍🌈
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The map and the territory: Why diversity advances neuroscience
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