Auditory Cognition | Obleser labAfter great success in the past, we are proud to announce a new SNAP Workshop in 2017. It will take place at the University of Lübeck in December 2017 — save the date!
SNAP will gather 12–14 speakers and about 50 or so participants for comparably extensive talks and discussions in a two-day event, to be held amongst the pittoresque surroundings of UNESCO world heritage city Lübeck (near Hamburg). A poster session will be arranged. All details to follow.
Santa struck early this year: The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has just granted AC head Jonas (University of Lübeck) and brain-stimulation wiz Gesa Hartwigsen (now a group leader at AC’s former institution, the MPI in Leipzig) a joint 3‑year grant, worth 371,000 € in total, on “Modulating neural network dynamics of speech comprehension: The role of the angular gyrus”. This project will build on Gesa and Jonas’ recent paper in Cortex on the topic. Thanks again to the funding body and the helpful reviewers!
Very proud: PhD student Lorenz Fiedler goes live (pre-peer-review) with his work of predicting the focus of attention in single-channel/forward models in in-ear EEG!
Here is the preprint of the paper, which now will undergo peer-review. Thanks for checking it out!
A review article for those interested in how to use magneto-/electroencephalography (M/EEG) to study speech comprehension. We provide a historically informed overview over dependent measures in the time and frequency domain, highlight recent advances resulting from these measures and review the notorious challenges and solutions speech and language researchers are faced with when studying electrophysiological brain responses.
Now available online:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23273798.2016.1262051
Magneto- and electroencephalographic (M/EEG) signals recorded from the human scalp have allowed for substantial advances for neural models of speech comprehension over the past decades. These methods are currently advancing rapidly and continue to offer unparalleled insight in the near-to-real-time neural dynamics of speech processing. We provide a historically informed overview over dependent measures in the time and frequency domain and highlight recent advances resulting from these measures. We discuss the notorious challenges (and solutions) speech and language researchers are faced with when studying auditory brain responses in M/EEG. We argue that a key to understanding the neural basis of speech comprehension will lie in studying interactions between the neural tracking of speech and the functional neural network dynamics. This article is intended for both, non-experts who want to learn how to use M/EEG to study speech comprehension and scholars aiming for an overview of state-of-the-art M/EEG analysis methods.
Next week we will be presenting some of our latest work at the Neuroscience meeting in San Diego.
Please tag along and check out our posters.
Also, consider checking in at the APAN satellite meeting, on Friday 11, where most of these posters will be presented as well.
Posters by the Obleser lab:
Sunday afternoon Session:
ALAVASH et al., Large-scale brain networks …, Board GG5
FIEDLER et al., Scalp EEG …, Board GG6
LIM et al., Effects of L‑dopa …, Board GG3
WASCHKE et al., Neural noise …, Board GG1
WILSCH et al., Investigating decay …, Board GG4
Monday afternoon Session:
GRAVERSEN et al., Ear-EEG …, Board NNN26
See you there.
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Disability, techno-bodies, and the question of autonomy. On Friday the 21th October, Lorenz is joining the 19th “Schwarzmarkt des Wissens” in Hamburg.
“The Blackmarket attempts to bring together areas, which generally do not belong together in public perception: the reality of physical and mental disability with critical visions on the future of the body and society. Wheelchair users, biohackers, cyborgs, post‑, trans- and para-humans and humanists, sign language users, physicians, prosthetists, ethicists, robotic experts and the neuro-divergent, artists, technological prophets and critics come together to invent an ethics for contemporary bodies.”
An article by our new AC group member Michael Plöchl from his PhD project in Osnabrück has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. In their study, Plöchl, Gaston, Mermagen, König and Hairston demonstrate that “Oscillatory activity in auditory cortex reflects the perceptual level of audio-tactile integration”.
