Author: Jonas

• 19 September 2013

  New paper in press: Her­rmann, Hen­ry, Grigutsch & Obleser, The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science [Update]

  Oscil­la­to­ry Phase Dynam­ics in Neur­al Entrain­ment Under­pin Illu­so­ry Per­cepts of Time Nat­ur­al sounds like speech and music inher­ent­ly vary in tem­po over time. Yet, con­tex­tu­al fac­tors such as vari­a­tions in the sound’s loud­ness or pitch influ­ence per­cep­tion of tem­po­ral rate change towards slow­ing down or speed­ing up. A new MEG study by Björn Her­rmann, Mol­ly Hen­ry, Maren […]

• 28 August 2013

  New paper has been pub­lished in Cere­bral Cor­tex by Hen­ry, Her­rmann, & Obleser

  When we lis­ten to sounds like speech and music, we have to make sense of dif­fer­ent acoustic fea­tures that vary simul­ta­ne­ous­ly along mul­ti­ple time scales. This means that we, as lis­ten­ers, have to selec­tive­ly attend to, but at the same time selec­tive­ly ignore, sep­a­rate but inter­twined fea­tures of a stimulus. A new­ly pub­lished fMRI study […]

• 12 July 2013

  New paper in press: Her­rmann et al., Hear­ing Research [Update]

  Audi­to­ry fil­ter width affects response mag­ni­tude but not fre­quen­cy speci­fici­ty in audi­to­ry cortex This is fan­tas­tic news on a fri­day morn­ing: Obleser lab Post­doc Björn Her­rmann teamed up with his fel­low Post­docs Math­ias Scharinger and Mol­ly Hen­ry to study how spec­tral analy­sis in the audi­to­ry periph­ery (termed fre­quen­cy selec­tiv­i­ty) relates to pro­cess­ing in audi­to­ry cor­tex […]

• 27 June 2013

  New paper out: Erb, Hen­ry, Eis­ner & Obleser — Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  We are proud to announce that PhD stu­dent Julia Erb just came out with a paper issued in Jour­nal  of Neu­ro­science: The Brain Dynam­ics of Rapid Per­cep­tu­al Adap­ta­tion to Adverse Lis­ten­ing Conditions Grab it here: The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science, 26 June 2013, 33(26): 10688–10697; doi: 10.1523/​JNEUROSCI.4596–12.2013 Abstract / Full Text Full Text (PDF) Abstract: Lis­ten­ers show a remark­able […]

• 7 May 2013

  Post­doc­tor­al researcher wanted!

  The Max Planck Insti­tute for Human Cog­ni­tive and Brain Sci­ences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig and the Max Planck Research Group “Audi­to­ry Cog­ni­tion” (head­ed by Jonas Obleser) are now offer­ing a Post­doc­tor­al researcher posi­tion, for ini­tial­ly 2 years, prefer­ably start­ing by Octo­ber 2013. Suc­cess­ful can­di­dates will have a PhD in cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science, psy­chol­o­gy, or nat­ur­al sci­ences. Pri­or expe­ri­ence […]

• 27 March 2013

  Spek­trum on neur­al oscil­la­tions (Hen­ry & Obleser)

  Ger­man sci­ence mag­a­zine Spek­trum pub­lished an arti­cle on our recent paper (see our post): Fre­quen­cy mod­u­la­tion entrains slow neur­al oscil­la­tions and opti­mizes human lis­ten­ing behavior issued in PNAS here. Illus­trat­ed with our nice group pho­to you can read the arti­cle: Mit Rhyth­mus geht auch Hören bess­er by Annegret Faber online. Ref­er­ences Hen­ry MJ, Obleser J. Fre­quen­cy mod­u­la­tion entrains slow […]

• 1 March 2013

  New paper out: Her­rmann, Hen­ry, and Obleser in Jour­nal of Neurophysiology

  In this study (avail­able online) Fre­quen­cy-spe­cif­ic adap­ta­tion in human audi­to­ry cor­tex depends on the spec­tral vari­ance in the acoustic stimulation we show that adap­ta­tion of neur­al respons­es in human audi­to­ry cor­tex to acoustic stim­u­la­tion is not fixed. Instead, the degree of co-adap­ta­tion in these tono­topi­cal­ly orga­nized brain regions varies (widens/tightens) with the spec­tral prop­er­ties of […]

• 1 February 2013

  New Paper in press — Scharinger, Hen­ry, Obleser, in Mem­o­ry & Cognition

  For nor­mal-hear­ing humans, cat­e­go­riz­ing com­plex acoustic stim­uli is a seem­ing­ly effort­less process, even if one has nev­er heard the par­tic­u­lar sounds before. Nev­er­the­less, pri­or expe­ri­ence with spe­cif­ic cor­re­la­tions between acoustic stim­u­lus prop­er­ties affects the cat­e­go­riza­tion in a ben­e­fi­cial way, as we show in our paper: Pri­or expe­ri­ence with neg­a­tive spec­tral cor­re­la­tions pro­motes infor­ma­tion inte­gra­tion dur­ing audi­to­ry […]

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