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Publications

[21] Kachlicka, M., Jasmin, K., Symons, A. E., Saito, K., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2026). 'English Prosody Dataset for investigating English prosody acquisition'. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

[20] Symons, A. E.*, Kachlicka, M.*, Dick, F., Saito, K., & Tierney, A. T. (2026). 'Strong primary cue weighting is linked to robust dimension-selective attention'. Cognition, 274, 106561.

[19] Kachlicka, M., Symons, A. E., Ruan, Y., Saito, K., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2026). 'Effects of targeted perceptual training on L2 prosodic cue weighting strategies', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

[18] Ghooch Kanloo, A. H., Kachlicka, M., Saito, K., & Tierney, A. (2026). 'Individual differences in perception of prosody in Mandarin-accented speech are linked to pitch perception, melody memory, musical training, and neural encoding of sound', Brain and Language, 273, 105689.

[17] Kachlicka, M., Symons, A. E., Dick, F., Saito, K., & Tierney, A. T. (2026). 'Early neural encoding of pitch drives cue weighting during speech perception'. Imaging Neuroscience.

[16] Correia, S., dos Santos Rato, A. A., Fernandes, J. D., Ge, Y., Kachlicka, M., Saito, K., & Rebuschat, P. (2025). 'Effects of phonetic training and cognitive aptitude on the perception and production of non-native speech contrasts', Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 47(1), 440-457.

[15] Kachlicka, M., Symons, A. E., Saito, K., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2024). 'Tone language experience enhances dimension-selective attention and subcortical encoding but not cortical entrainment to pitch', Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1-19.

[14] Kachlicka, M., & Tierney, A. T. (2024). 'Voice actors show enhanced neural tracking of pitch, prosody perception, and music perception', Cortex, 178, 213-222.

[13] Kachlicka, M., Patel, A. D., Liu, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2024). 'Weighting of cues to categorization of song versus speech in tone language and non-tone-language speakers', Cognition, 246, 105757.

[12] Saito, K., Kachlicka, M., Suzukida, Y., Mora-Plaza, I., Ruan, Y. & Tierney, A. T. (2024). 'Auditory processing as perceptual, cognitive, and motoric abilities underlying successful second language acquisition: Interaction model', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(1), 119–138.

[11] Saito, K., Hanzawa, K., Petrova, K., Kachlicka, M., Suzukida, Y., & Tierney, A. T. (2022). 'Incidental and multimodal high variability phonetic training: Potential, limits, and future directions', Language Learning, 72(4), 1049–1091.

[10] Saito, K., Petrova, K., Suzukida, Y., Kachlicka, M., & Tierney, A. T. (2022). 'Training auditory processing promotes second language speech acquisition', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(12), 1410–1426.

[9] Saito, K., Kachlicka, M., Suzukida, Y., Petrova, K., Lee, B. J., & Tierney, A. T. (2022). 'Auditory precision hypothesis-L2: Dimension-specific relationships between auditory processing and second language segmental learning', Cognition, 229, 105236.

[8] Kachlicka, M., Laffere, A., Dick, F, & Tierney, A. T. (2022). 'Slow phase-locked modulations support selective attention to sound', NeuroImage, 252, 119024.

[7] Saito, K., Macmillan, K., Kachlicka, M., Kunihara, T., & Minematsu, N. (2022). 'Automated assessment of second language comprehensibility: Review, training, validation, and generalization studies', Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45, 234–263.

[6] Saito, K., Macmillan, K., Kroeger, S., Magne, V., Takizawa, K., Kachlicka, M., & Tierney, A. (2022). 'Roles of domain-general auditory processing in spoken second language vocabulary attainment in adulthood', Applied Psycholinguistics, 43, 581–606.

[5] Saito, K., Sun, H., Kachlicka, M., Alayo, J., Nakata, T., & Tierney, A. (2022). 'Domain-general auditory processing explains multiple dimensions of L2 acquisition in adulthood', Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 44(1), 57–86. '(Received the Albert Valdman award for outstanding publication in SSLA)'

[4] Mitchell, A., Oberman, T., Aletta, F., Kachlicka, M., Lionello, M., Erfanian, M., & Kang, J. (2021). 'Investigating urban soundscapes of the COVID-19 lockdown: A predictive soundscape modelling approach', The Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 150, 4474–4488.

[3] Saito, K., Kachlicka, M., Sun. H., & Tierney, A. T. (2020). 'Domain-general auditory processing as an anchor of post-pubertal second language pronunciation learning: Behavioural and neurophysiological investigations of perceptual acuity, age, experience, development, and attainment', Journal of Memory and Language, 115, 104168.

[2] Mitchell, A., Oberman, T., Aletta, F., Erfanian, M., Kachlicka, M., Lionello, M., & Kang, J. (2020). 'The Soundscape Indices (SSID) Protocol: A Method for Urban Soundscape Surveys—Questionnaires with Acoustical and Contextual Information', Applied Sciences, 10(7), 2397.

[1] Kachlicka, M., Saito, K., & Tierney, A. T. (2019). 'Successful second language learning is tied to robust domain-general auditory processing and stable neural representation of sound', Brain and Language, 192, 15–24.

Submitted or under review

[5] Saito, K., Suzukida, Y., Hosaka, I., Magne, V., Kachlicka, M., Argyri, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2026, May). 'The bilingual advantage hypothesis revisited: Exploring the auditory processing abilities and executive function of bilingual and monolingual children with diverse biographical backgrounds'.

[4] Kachlicka, M., van den Bosch, J., Kang, J., & Dick, F. (2026, April). 'A selection of environmental sounds for behavioural and neuroimaging research: Introducing EnviSounds dataset'. Under review in Behavior Research Methods.

[3] Haydock, D., Leech, R., Kachlicka, M., & Dick, F. (2025, November). 'Auditory cortical gradients integrate bottom-up and top-down structure during natural sound categorisation'.

[2] Nash, M.*, Kachlicka, M.*, Pearce, M., Pathirana, P., & Tierney, A. T. (2025, September). 'Attention is required for prediction from short-term but not long-term learning of musical structure'.

[1] Saito, K., Tierney, A. T., Takizawa, K., Dardon, D. E., Li, C., Kachlicka, M., Sugiura, M., & Jeong, H. (2025, March). 'Individual difference in motor and auditory activation in L2 speech learning: Roles of domain-general auditory processing'. Accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Manuscripts in preparation

[4] Kachlicka, M., & Tzovara, A. 'Intrinsic neural timescales: From fixed architectural features to dynamic properties'. (Expected submission: Mid-2026)

[3] Kachlicka, M., Jasmin, K., Saito, K., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. T. 'Cue weighting and frontotemporal connectivity during speech perception in tonal and non-tonal language speakers'. (Expected submission: End-2026)

[2] Kachlicka, M., van den Bosch, J., & Dick, F. 'Representations of natural sound categories'. (Expected submission: End-2026)

[1] Symons, A. E., Kachlicka, M., Wright, E., Razin, R., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. 'Dimensional salience varies across verbal and nonverbal domains'.

Conference posters and presentations

[13] Nash, M.*, Tierney, A.T., Di Liberto, G., & Kachlicka, M. (2026, scheduled). Effects of proficiency and immersion experience on neural encoding of acoustic and linguistic information by Mandarin Chinese learners of English. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 18th Annual Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

[12] Kachlicka, M.*, Christopoulos, A., Mignardot, C., Quiroga-Martinez, D.R., Willie, J.T., Brunner, P., Knight, R.T., & Tzovara, A. (2026, scheduled). Neural hierarchy for auditory and speech perception. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 18th Annual Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

[11] Christopoulos, A.*, Kachlicka, M., Mignardot, C., Quiroga-Martinez, D.R., Willie, J.T., Brunner, P., Knight, R.T., & Tzovara, A. (2026). 'Studying auditory processing along the extended network with iEEG'. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting in Bordeaux, France.

[10] Haydock, D.*, Leech, R., Kachlicka, M., & Dick, F. (2026). 'Functional gradients integrate acoustic and semantic information in environmental sound categories'. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting in Bordeaux, France.

[9] Kachlicka, M.*, Christopoulos, A., Mignardot, C., Quiroga-Martinez, D. R., Willie, J. T., Brunner, P., Knight, R. T., & Tzovara, A. (2026). 'Neural hierarchy for auditory and speech perception'. EEG Research Day, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.

[8] Kachlicka, M.*, Jasmin, K., Saito, K., Dick, F., Tierney, A.T. (2025). 'Neural mechanisms of pitch and prosody perception in tonal and non-tonal language speakers'. 8th International Conference on Auditory Cortex in Maastricht, Netherlands.

[7] Kachlicka, M.*, van den Bosch, J. F., Kang, J., & Dick, F. (2025). 'A selection of environmental sounds for behavioural and neuroimaging research: Introducing EnviSounds dataset'. 8th International Conference on Auditory Cortex in Maastricht, Netherlands.

[6] Kachlicka, M.*, Symons, A. E., Ruan, Y., Saito, K., Dick, F., Tierney, A. T. (2024). 'Effects of targeted perceptual training on L2 suprasegmental cue weighting strategies'. 33rd Conference of the European Second Language Association in Montpellier, France.

[5] Kachlicka, M.*, Symons, A. E., Saito, K., Dick, F., Tierney, A. T. (2023). 'Effects of first language background and musical experience on cue weighting, attention and dimensional salience in speech and music'. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 15th Annual Meeting in Marseille, France.

[4] Kachlicka, M.*, van den Bosch, J. F., Kang, J., Dick, F. (2022). 'Representations of natural sound categories'. FENS Summer School: Artificial and natural computations for sensory perception in Bertinoro, Italy.

[3] Mitchell, A.*, Aletta, F., Oberman, T., Erfanian, M., Kachlicka, M., Lionello, M., & Kang, J. (2019). 'Making cities smarter with new soundscape indices'. 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego, US.

[2] Aletta, F.*, Oberman, T., Mitchell, A., Erfanian, M., Lionello, M., Kachlicka, M., & Kang, J. (2019). 'Associations between soundscape experience and self-reported wellbeing in open public urban spaces: a field study'. The Lancet: Public Health Science 2019 Conference in London, UK.

[1] Kang, J.*, Aletta, F., Oberman, T., Erfanian, M., Kachlicka, M., Lionello, M., & Mitchell, A. (2019). 'Towards soundscape indices'. 23rd International Congress on Acoustics in Aachen, Germany.

Talks

[6] 'Can you hear what I hear' at the Institute of Sound Recording, University of Surrey, UK (September 2025)

[5] 'EEG in educational neuroscience research' at the ENCoRe (Educational Neuroscience Collaboration and Research UK) pre-conference workshop (April 2025)

[4] 'Dimensionality in auditory perception' at University of Oxford, UK (October 2024)

[3] 'How does prior experience change the way we learn new languages' at University College London Institute of Education, UK (September 2024)

[2] 'How does prior experience change the way we listen to sounds and learn new languages' at University of Miami, US (June 2024)

[1] 'Auditory processing in second language learning' at Brain & Language Seminar at University of Helsinki, Finland (February 2019)