Elena Bolt

LIFE Fellow from 2022 to 2024, University of Zurich

Dr. phil.

Dissertation completed in October 2024

Exploring Cognitive Decline Through the Aging Ear With Natural Speech-Based Computational Neurophysiology

(Advisors: Nathalie Giroud & Martin Meyer)

Selected Publications

Bolt, E., & Giroud, N. (2024). Auditory encoding of natural speech at subcortical and cortical levels is not indicative of cognitive decline. eNeuro, 11(5), Article ENEURO.0545-23.2024. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0545-23.2024

Bolt, E., & Giroud, N. (2024). Neural encoding of linguistic speech cues is unaffected by cognitive decline, but decreases with increasing hearing impairment. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 19105. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69602-1

Bolt, E., Kliestenec, K., & Giroud, N. (2024). Hearing and cognitive decline in aging differentially impact neural tracking of context-supported versus random speech across linguistic timescales. PLoS ONE, 19(12), Article e0313854. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313854