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• workRopewalk House
  113 The Ropewalk
  Nottingham
  NG1 5DU
  UK
• Guangting.Mai@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Guangting is a Research Fellow in translational hearing research based at NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre.

He was raised in China and obtained his first degree in materials physics at Sun Yat-sen University. He obtained his MSc in cognitive neuroscience and human neuroimaging at University of Sheffield (2014) and PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL (2020). His other experience includes highly interdisciplinary training with a research assistantship at Chinese University of Hong Kong (Department of Electronic Engineering, 2010-2013), then an internship at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Institute of Linguistics, 2015) and a cross-disciplinary training scholarship at UCL Medical Physics and Biomed Engineering (2018-2019).

Expertise Summary

Guangting's expertise is using behavioural and neuroimaging methods, including psychoacoustics, electroencephalography (EEG), functional near infrared spectrospcopy (fNIRS) and brain stimulation (tDCS), to study auditory and speech perception in human participants with or without normal hearing. He specialises in experimentation, programming for signal processing and quantitative analyses of these techniques. He also specialises in programming skills for in-lab and online task-based experiments and hearing-specific coding skills such as acoustic vocoding for cochlear implant simulations.

Research Summary

Guangting's research focuses have been studying neural oscillations and phase-locked activities during speech perception in humans with normal and impaired hearing. His previous research training… read more

Selected Publications

• MAI, GUANGTING and WANG, WILLIAM S-Y., 2023. Distinct roles of delta- and theta-band neural tracking for sharpening and predictive coding of multi-level speech features during spoken language processing Human Brain Mapping. 1-24, DOI:10.1002/hbm.26503
• MAI, GUANGTING and HOWELL, PETER, 2023. The possible role of early-stage phase-locked neural activities in speech-in-noise perception in human adults across age and hearing loss Hearing Research. 427, 108647
• MAI, GUANGTING and HOWELL, PETER, 2022. Causal Relationship between the Right Auditory Cortex and Speech-Evoked Envelope-Following Response: Evidence from Combined Transcranial Stimulation and Electroencephalography. CEREBRAL CORTEX. 32(7), 1437-1454
• MAI, GUANGTING, SCHOOF, TIM and HOWELL, PETER, 2019. Modulation of phase-locked neural responses to speech during different arousal states is age-dependent NEUROIMAGE. 189, 734-744

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Current Research

Guangting's research focuses have been studying neural oscillations and phase-locked activities during speech perception in humans with normal and impaired hearing. His previous research training also includes applying functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a cochlear-implant(CI)-compatible optical functional neuroimaging technique at UCL Medical Physics and PALS. At Nottingham, his focus is to use fNIRS to study brain functions in CI recipients and in typical hearing controls. The aim is trying to provide objective measures for neural reorganisation and ultimately advance strategies for rehabilitation in CI patients.

• MAI, GUANGTING and HOWELL, PETER, 2023. The possible role of early-stage phase-locked neural activities in speech-in-noise perception in human adults across age and hearing loss Hearing Research. 427, 108647
• MAI, GUANGTING and WANG, WILLIAM S-Y., 2023. Distinct roles of delta- and theta-band neural tracking for sharpening and predictive coding of multi-level speech features during spoken language processing Human Brain Mapping. 1-24, DOI:10.1002/hbm.26503
• MAI, GUANGTING and HOWELL, PETER, 2022. Causal Relationship between the Right Auditory Cortex and Speech-Evoked Envelope-Following Response: Evidence from Combined Transcranial Stimulation and Electroencephalography. CEREBRAL CORTEX. 32(7), 1437-1454
• MAI, GUANGTING, SCHOOF, TIM and HOWELL, PETER, 2019. Modulation of phase-locked neural responses to speech during different arousal states is age-dependent NEUROIMAGE. 189, 734-744
• MAI, GUANGTING, TUOMAINEN, JYRKI and HOWELL, PETER, 2018. Relationship between speech-evoked neural responses and perception of speech in noise in older adults JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 143(3), 1333-1345
• MAI, GUANGTING, MINETT, JAMES W. and WANG, WILLIAM S-Y., 2016. Delta, theta, beta, and gamma brain oscillations index levels of auditory sentence processing NEUROIMAGE. 133, 516-528
• MAI, GUANGTING, 2014. Relative importance of AM and FM cues for speech comprehension: Effects of speaking rate and their implications for neurophysiological processing of speech In: 15TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2014). 2585-2589
• MAI, GUANGTING, MINETT, JAMES W. and WANG, WILLIAM S-Y., 2013. Effects of envelope filter cutoff frequency on the intelligibility of Mandarin noise-vocoded speech in babble noise: Implications for cochlear implants 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2013), VOLS 1-5. 3613-3617
• MAI, GUANGTING, 2012. Relative Importance of Temporal Envelope and Fine Structure Cues in Low- and High-Order Harmonic Regions for Mandarin Lexical-Tone Recognition 13TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2012 (INTERSPEECH 2012), VOLS 1-3. 1854-1857
• MAI, GUANGTING and PENG, GANG, 2011. Optimal Syllabic Rates and Processing Units in Perceiving Mandarin Spoken Sentences 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5. 2488-2491