Author: Jonas
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Three new papers accepted this week
Testimony to the breadth of the science that our lab is involved in, three new peer-reviewed contributions got accepted in notable journals this week: Malte Wöstmann is in press in iScience with a very fresh look at how head rotations and eye movements fold in with a classic neural signature of spatially selective attention (lateralised alpha-oscillatory […]
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Jonas appointed as Associate Fellow of the Max Planck School of Cognition
Jonas Obleser has been appointed as Associate Fellow of the Max Planck School of Cognition and will serve as Associate Fellow from October 2026 onwards. The Max Planck Schools – A Joint Graduate Program of German Universities and Research Organizations are a national initiative designed to promote scientific excellence across Germany. The innovative program enhances […]
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New paper in eLife: Predicting what’s next does not necessarily come for free
Merle Schuckart has recently put out the center piece of her doctoral research. Out in open access journal eLife, Merle led a diverse team — the Obleser and the Tune groups of Lübeck, the Hartwigsen lab (Leipzig) , and Lea-Maria Schmitt from the Donders institute in Nijmegen — through a multi-study endeavour how reading, as […]
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We’ll be hiring
The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). — Please be in touch if you think cozy Lübeck near Hamburg and close to the baltic sea might be for you. Our university offers a very agile environment, with a new OPM-MEG lab under my lab’s […]
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Merle Schuckart wins Open Science Prize
Hooray! Merle Schuckart has won the Open Science Prize of the University of Lübeck 2025 for the project behind her latest preprint, “Lifespan Variation in Perceptual Style Along an Autism–Schizotypy Continuum Explains Individual Responses to External Uncertainty” The Open Science Prize recognizes open scientific practices: open code, open data, transparent hypotheses—ideally preregistered—and the early sharing […]
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Your mother’s voice — out now in the Journal of Neuroscience
How do infants continuously process familiar social signals? And how does this familiarity shape perception? In a new paper out now in November in the Journal of Neuroscience, Jonas and Martin Orf teamed up with The Lübeck Babylab and its Director Sarah Jessen. In a large group of 7‑months old infants and their families, Sarah […]
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Hooray: fresh funding for a fresh idea
Imagine the brain’s intricate work not unlike a traffic roundabout: signals continuously enter, yield, and merge — never static, but rarely chaotic. This balance between stability and flexibility (i.e., metastability) lies at the heart of a new interdisciplinary neuroscience initiative Jonas intends to pursue at the University of Lübeck. Today, we are delighted that this […]
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New paper with our Leipzig friends in the Journal of Neuroscience
The Gesa Hartwigsen lab’s own Vivien Barchet and their team in Leipzig with some help from Jonas have just published a compelling study in The Journal of Neuroscience titled “Attentional engagement with target and distractor streams predicts speech comprehension in multi-talker environments”. In everyday listening scenes—think cocktail parties, cafés, or busy open offices—the brain must […]