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Mar­tin Orf receives EUHA Award for Out­stand­ing Thesis

Mar­tin Orf is one of three recip­i­ents of this year’s EUHA Award for Out­stand­ing The­sis from the Euro­pean Union of Hear­ing Acousti­cians. His the­sis, titled “Selec­tive Atten­tion in Mul­ti-Talk­er Sit­u­a­tions: Neur­al and Behav­ioral Mech­a­nisms”, offers valu­able insights into the neur­al and behav­ioral process­es behind selec­tive atten­tion in com­plex lis­ten­ing envi­ron­ments. A key find­ing of his research is that the neur­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the tar­get lan­guage becomes stronger when the ignored lan­guage is more com­pressed. This dis­cov­ery­play a cru­cial role in the devel­op­ment of new hear­ing aid algo­rithms or the enhance­ment of exist­ing ones.

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Wel­come

We wel­come new PhD stu­dents in the Obleser lab: Andre­ja Sta­j­duhar and Max Schulz.

Andre­ja did her Bachelor’s at York Uni­ver­si­ty in Toron­to, Cana­da, where she focused on how indi­vid­u­als per­ceive faces under dif­fer­ent con­di­tions. At the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, she focused on under­stand­ing how dif­fer­ences in auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal mem­o­ry per­for­mance may map onto neu­roanatom­i­cal dif­fer­ences in the brain. Now, togeth­er with Dr. Sarah Tune, she is inves­ti­gat­ing how per­cep­tu­al infer­ence changes with age.

Max did his M. Sc. in Biol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leipzig. Dur­ing his DFG-fund­ed PhD project under super­vi­sion of Malte Wöst­mann, he is focus­ing on ques­tions about cap­ture and sup­pres­sion in audi­to­ry attention.