A warm wel­come to the six new lab members

The lab is very hap­py to wel­come six new mem­bers as of this month!

Chris­tine Albrecht is join­ing us as a post­doc­tor­al researcher from Hein­rich-Heine-Uni­ver­si­ty in Düs­sel­dorf. There, she worked on the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of feed­back and error pro­cess­ing in EEG and to a less­er extent fMRI, with a focus on influ­ences of expec­ta­tion. This is some­thing that she, togeth­er with Jonas, wants to inte­grate into audi­to­ry cog­ni­tion research in the next months. She is explor­ing ques­tions such as: How do expec­ta­tions about the world around us and the pre­ci­sion of these expec­ta­tions shape audi­to­ry per­cep­tion and learn­ing about audi­to­ry signals?

Also new in the lab is our PhD stu­dent Mar­leen Dit­trich. As part of the DFG-fund­ed COMPANION project, she will be work­ing with Jonas and Malte and our part­ners at the ENT clin­ic to inves­ti­gate the rela­tion­ship between sub­jec­tive hear­ing expe­ri­ences and objec­tive hear­ing per­for­mance among users of cochlear implants. They’ll be exam­in­ing in detail the dis­crep­an­cy between these two aspects dur­ing the first six months after CI acti­va­tion on a neur­al and behav­ioral level.

In addi­tion, Jana Rehm, Michelle Pscheor, Melike Demir and Nisali Sadara have start­ed their inter­ships in the lab, con­tribut­ing to run­ning stud­ies as well as plan­ning and con­duct­ing new ones.