Author: Jonas

• 11 November 2011

  New paper out in Jour­nal of Speech, Lan­guage, & Hear­ing Research [Update]

  We are hap­py to announce that our paper “Asym­me­tries in the pro­cess­ing of vow­el height” will be appear­ing in the Jour­nal of Speech, Lan­guage, & Hear­ing Research, authored by Philip Mon­a­han, William Idsar­di and Math­ias Scharinger. A short sum­ma­ry is giv­en below: Pur­pose: Speech per­cep­tion can be described as the trans­for­ma­tion of con­tin­u­ous acoustic infor­ma­tion into […]

• 6 November 2011

  New lab mem­bers joining

  As of Decem­ber 1, we will have two new mem­bers join­ing the Lab. Björn Her­rmann very recent­ly received his Dr. rer. nat. from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leipzig, after doing method­olog­i­cal­ly advanced worked on MEG and fMRI cor­re­lates of ear­ly auditory–syntactic inter­ac­tions in lan­guage comprehension.  Dun­ja Kunke is a trained audi­ol­o­gist and will help us gear up […]

• 6 November 2011

  New paper accept­ed in Cere­bral Cor­tex [Update]

  Obleser, J., Weisz, N. (in press) Sup­pressed alpha oscil­la­tions pre­dict intel­li­gi­bil­i­ty of speech and its acoustic details. Cere­bral Cortex. [Update] Paper is avail­able here. Ref­er­ences Obleser J, Weisz N. Sup­pressed alpha oscil­la­tions pre­dict intel­li­gi­bil­i­ty of speech and its acoustic details. Cereb Cor­tex. 2012 Nov;22(11):2466–77. PMID: 22100354. [Open with Read] Mod­u­la­tions of human alpha oscil­la­tions (8−13 Hz) […]

• 20 May 2011

  The group is approach­ing cruis­ing altitude

  I am glad to report that the lab is in full flight. (From left to right: ) Anna Wilsch, Julia Erb, Dr. Math­ias Scharinger, Dr. Mol­ly Hen­ry, and Antje Strauß have joined forces with me. We are hav­ing a splen­did time find­ing out more about speech, degra­da­tion of it, and the neur­al pro­cess­ing of it […]

• 15 April 2011

  New Paper out: HELLO? in press (Neu­roIm­age)

  Pho­net­ic cues instan­ta­neous­ly mapped onto dialec­tal cat­e­gories appear to be extract­ed at ear­ly moments in audi­to­ry speech per­cep­tion, as we try to show in our paper You had me at “Hel­lo”: Rapid extrac­tion of dialect infor­ma­tion from spo­ken words to appear in Neu­roIm­age (Math­ias Scharinger, Philip Mon­a­han, William Idsardi). In a mod­i­fied pas­sive odd­ball design, we com­pare […]

• 15 April 2011

  New Paper out: Com­pre­hen­sive map of a language’s vow­el space

  We are glad to announce that our paper (Math­ias Scharinger, Saman­tha Poe, & William Idsar­di) on cor­ti­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tions of Turk­ish vow­els is in press in Jour­nal of Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science. In this paper, we extend pre­vi­ous meth­ods of obtain­ing cen­ters of cor­ti­cal activ­i­ty evoked by vow­el exem­plars (e.g. Obleser et al., 2003, on Ger­man) and pro­vide […]

• 11 April 2011

  New paper out: Alpha oscil­la­tions in audition

  I am also delight­ed to report the fruits of a very recent col­lab­o­ra­tion with Nathan Weisz and his OBOB lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kon­stanz, Germany. Alpha Rhythms in Audi­tion: Cog­ni­tive and Clin­i­cal Perspectives In this review paper, which appears in the new, excit­ing “Fron­tiers in Psy­chol­o­gy” jour­nal, we sum the recent evi­dence that alpha […]

• 11 April 2011

  New paper out: “Upstream del­e­ga­tion” for pro­cess­ing of com­plex syn­tax under degrad­ed acoustics

  A new paper is about to appear in Neu­roim­age on the inter­ac­tion of syn­tac­tic com­plex­i­ty and acoustic degradation. It is writ­ten by myself, PhD stu­dent Lars Mey­er, and Angela Friederi­ci. In a way, the paper brings togeth­er one of Angela’s main research ques­tions (which brain cir­cuits medi­ate the pro­cess­ing of syn­tax?) with a long-stand­ing inter­est […]

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