Please spread the word:
We are offering a PhD post (alternatively, a half-time Postdoctoral post) in our new Auditory Cognition University of Lübeck branch! (English version here.)
Please spread the word:
We are offering a PhD post (alternatively, a half-time Postdoctoral post) in our new Auditory Cognition University of Lübeck branch! (English version here.)
It is with great pleasure that we can report on a new major grant for the Auditory Cognition group / Obleser lab: In the 2014 call by the European Research Council (ERC), Jonas Obleser has very recently been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant (for researchers 7–12 years post their PhD), worth 1.97 million €. The grant has been awarded to fund a project entitled “The listening challenge: How ageing brains adapt”. The project will last for five years.
Read the official ERC press release here.
Alumna Dr. Antje Strauß just got another paper on:
Alpha Phase Determines Successful Lexical Decision in Noise
by Antje Strauß, Molly Henry, Mathias Scharinger, and Jonas Obleser
appeared in Journal of Neuroscience. Check the abstract below;
A new paper on
by AC PhD Anna Wilsch, alumni postdocs Molly Henry & Björn Herrmann, AC head Jonas Obleser along with Burkhard Maess appeared in Psychophysiology.
Check the online source, or take a quick look on the abstract below.
Time flies: The Auditory Cognition group aka The Obleser Lab has just entered its fifth year. We took off properly in early 2011, so this is a good point in time to briefly recap. We have had four exciting and very productive years so far, and this fifth year is bringing a lot of exciting turn-over as well. First, new faces have joined our group:
Dr. Sophie Herbst a psychologist with keen interests in time perception joined us as a postdoc, coming from Niko Busch’s lab at the Charité Berlin.
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Lorenz Fiedler joined us to help us build real-time links between EEG and hearing aids, as planned in our Volkswagen project.
Second, a few great talents have moved on with the beginning of 2015:
Antje Strauß just received her Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) from the University of Leipzig and is now at the GIPSA lab, University of Grenoble, France.
Dr. Molly Henry and Dr. Björn Herrmann have both taken up new Postdoctoral jobs at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CA. They will be working with Jessica Grahn and Ingrid Johnsrude, respectively.
Dr. Alex Brandmeyer could not resist a fantastic offer by Dolby Systems Inc., San Francisco to join them as a research scientist.
Earlier in autumn 2014 already, Julia Erb had taken up a postdoc position with Elia Formisano at the University of Maastricht.
… the best of luck and many thanks to all the new AC alumni!
Lastly, Jonas as head of the group has just been appointed Professor for Research Methods and Statistics at the (newly-founded) Department of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Germany.
These great news also imply that the Auditory Cognition group as a whole will, as conceived by the Max Planck Society when providing this five-year start-up funding, slowly transplant to a new place, namely: Lübeck, over the year to come. Watch this space! Yet, the labels “auditorycognition.com” and “obleserlab.com” will surely remain active and move with us.
Some days ago the Max Planck Society put out a news feature on our most recent Journal of Neuroscience paper (see our post):
Aufmerksam zuhören — Hirn-Wellen zeigen Mühen des Hörens im Alter an
It nicely wraps up Malte’s experiment on alpha dynamics in younger and older listeners. Check the link above for the full article (German).
Congratulations to just-graduated former AC PhD student and fresh GIPSA/Grenoble Postdoc Antje Strauß, who today had the last data set from her PhD thesis accepted as a paper in The Journal of Neuroscience. We are all very happy!
The paper is entitled “Alpha phase determines successful lexical decision in noise” and contains arguably the first data set to extend principles of (alpha, 8–12 Hz) pre-stimulus phase dependence from low-level psychophysics to more complex language or cognitive processes, here: lexical decision.
A big hello to AC friend and colleague Niko Busch, by the way, whose bifurcation index measure served our purposes very well here!
We will update accordingly, but meanwhile, here is the abstract and my favourite figure from the paper.
Our lab has been awarded a 100,000 € (750,000 DKK) research grant by the Danish Oticon foundation.
Together with Thomas Lunner from the Eriksholm Research Centre, we will explore real-time neural (EEG) measures and forms of neural hearing-aid control.
This work is conceived to support and further develop our efforts funded earlier in 2014 by the Volkswagen Foundation (from the “Experiment!” call for high-risk projects, 100,000 €).