Björn Herrmann
@bjoherrmann
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He/him • Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, Toronto, Canada • Thoughts and opinions are my own
Toronto, ON, Canada
Joined September 2016
New work from the lab: https://t.co/nZzQ0CmDiz Mobile eye-tracking glasses assess listening effort through pupil size and eye movements as good as a stationary eye tracker. But mobile glasses also show that people reduce their head movements when listening becomes more effortful.
biorxiv.org
To extend the assessment of listening effort beyond a sound booth, we validated mobile eye-tracking glasses (Pupil Labs Neon) by comparing them to a stationary system (Eyelink DUO) in a controlled...
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Our lab https://t.co/Yo4OWYyQDd
@rotmanresearch in Toronto is recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2026. We work on cognition, hearing, hearing loss, cognition-hearing link, and social consequences of hearing loss. Get in-touch (email). UofT details
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Automated, language-agnostic speech recall scoring is now published in Trends in Hearing: https://t.co/tgUJXF0IRX This opens new avenues for speech comprehension research, making assessments of narrative speech recall a bit easier.
journals.sagepub.com
Speech-comprehension difficulties are common among older people. Standard speech tests do not fully capture such difficulties because the tests poorly resemble ...
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⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely
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🚨We're hiring another tenure-track at McGill University: focus on brain-body science! 👇 https://t.co/sUYiBIWQaC
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New job posting - Please share widely! @rotmanresearch @Baycrest and @YorkUniversity have a new tenure-track position in Quantitative Modeling (Predictive #Neuroscience) on Brain Health in Aging. This is a @ConnectedMinds3 research enhanced role. https://t.co/sGcpKzM86f
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*** Job Alert *** Assistant Professor position in my School (AI discipline in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) @tcddublinscss @tcddublin
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Interested in automated scoring of speech recall across languages? Check out this new preprint. https://t.co/XSKPoFmbbM Possibly helping the hearing sciences to use more naturalistic speech materials to assess comprehension.
arxiv.org
Speech-comprehension difficulties are common among older people. Standard speech tests do not fully capture such difficulties because the tests poorly resemble the context-rich, story-like nature...
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Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @TheCHBH 👇 https://t.co/h1Gh37XS7w please share
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Distilling the potential impact of science based on a title is so dangerous. Some of the biggest biomedical breakthroughs came from research that, at first glance, seemed ‘pointless or unrelated. Here are a few that I'm sure might have caused an uproar in the headlines:
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New PI position at SickKids for people interested in neural and glial mechanisms of cognition. Please share widely and apply! Science Careers - https://t.co/S0Hn5dWMof Nature Careers - https://t.co/BG1VsunjKz
nature.com
Scientist/Senior Scientist focused on examining the molecular and cellular basis of cognition throughout the lifespan.
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SUPER excited to share this opening for a senior (Assoc/Full) Professor of Psychiatry + endowed Chair at Dartmouth! We are looking for a translational research scientist using imaging (fMRI, fNIRS, fUS) and/or neurostimulation (TMS, tTIS, tACS/DCS, tFUS) to join the Neural Code
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About one week left to send in an application for our postdoc position. Fun projects and amazing team members would love you to join.
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Come and join us! The School of CSD at Western University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Audiology.
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📢 Calling all Systems & #ComputationalNeuroscience researchers! The #FriedmanBrainInstitute is hiring tenure-track faculty in the Department of Neuroscience @IcahnMountSinai. Learn more & apply 👉 https://t.co/1HC8If17ZE *Please retweet & share!
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Our @AuditoryAging lab @rotmanresearch is hiring a new postdoc in memory, hearing, and fMRI for projects on naturalistic listening. Come join an amazing research community in Toronto. Please retweet. @AROMWM @SfNtweets @apanhearing @CogNeuroNews.
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Come be my colleague! @UTMPsychology is hiring in the perception & cognition area. Retweets appreciated!
jobs.utoronto.ca
Assistant Professor - Perception and Cognition
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Hearing Health and Cognitive Health: Ten things that people who are Hard of Hearing should know
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Just posted new job! UC Irvine Language Science assistant professor. Please distribute.
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