Details are to follow, but we and our many colleagues in the Hoerhanse Lübeck [hanseatic hearing] are very pleased to have secured substantial funds to kick-start our communication and cross-fertilization platform for hearing research, training, and treatment here in Lübeck. The project will be hosted at our partner, Hanse Innovation Campus (HIC) Lübeck. HIC will also be hiring soon for this poject. Stay tuned for all the details!
Author: Jonas
Check out this new job ad (deadline Dec 16), if you are interested in working on the complexity of high-dimensional neural data (and how to ensure its anonymity) in this exciting new project with many colleagues from Uni Lübeck and companies around us.
This post is especially suited for talents looking for slight changes in their career trajectory (psychologists going data science, IT specialists going neuro/health, or such).
Holding already a doctoral degree is nice but not a strict must-have at this stage.
Hit me up with any questions you might have. — Jonas
Six years in our lab with the ageing, adapting, listening brain and mind center-stage have come to a successful close. Jonas’ ERC Consolidator grant had been granted during the Auditory Cognition lab’s tenure at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig originally, and it has shaped our start and settling-in at the University of Lübeck ever since 2016.
Jonas: “In total almost 500 sessions of behaviour, EEG and fMRI recorded; more than 160 brave Lübeck folks and their brains followed longitudinally over two years; 25 publications put out; and not least two PhDs finished and five postdoc careers kickstarted — I am very grateful for the help of all these people, my host Institution University of Lübeck and the European Research Council (ERC) having made this all happen. Thank you all.”
All data will be or are already publicly available on OSF, and we will update our dedicated “AUDADAPT” project page once the final report is in.
Former Obleserlab PhD student Leo Waschke is now out in eLife with an ingenious demonstration how both endogenous and exogenously-driven changes in the steepness of the brain-electric 1/f power spectrum (in part linked directly to local excitation:inhibiton, E:I, ratio) in neural populations can affect behaviour in complex, multi-sensory environments: “Modality-specific tracking of attention and sensory statistics in the human electrophysiological spectral exponent”.
The results draw heavily on the recent spectral-slope exponent work by our collaborators at University of California San Diego in the lab of Bradley Voytek, and have come together in a three-lab collabo of Lübeck, San Diego, and Leo’s current scientific home, the Douglas Garrett lab at the MPIB.
Congratulations, Leo!
https://twitter.com/bradleyvoytek/status/1451591258384650244?s=20
Here’s a brand new PhD training opportunity, @dfg_public-funded, joint project of @ObleserLab at @UniLuebeck Germany, supervised by me, with star collaborator @GesaHartwigsen (@MPI_CBS) — starting next spring. Please be in touch. Please distribute widely. https://t.co/oTUEVVgQSG pic.twitter.com/L4DtFaqRJl
— Jonas Obleser (@jonasobleser) October 19, 2021
Our lab (senior author Sarah Tune) teamed up once again with the Babylab Lübeck, led by Sarah Jessen: Sarah and Sarah co-wrote a great tutorial on how the versatile analysis framework of temporal response functions can be used to analyse brain data obtained in infants. The article has now been accepted for publication in the well-reputed journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience:
Very excited to share our new tutorial article together with @jonasobleser and @sarahs_tunes on how neural tracking can be used to analyze infant EEG data. https://t.co/UnHljCEwkm
— Sarah Jessen @sarahjessen.bsky.social (@jessen_sarah) November 9, 2021
Very excited to announce that former Obleser lab PhD student Lea-Maria Schmitt with her co-authors *) is now out in the Journal Science Advances with her new work, fusing artifical neural networks and functional MRI data, on timescales of prediction in natural language comprehension:
“Predicting speech from a cortical hierarchy of event-based time scales”
*) Lea-Maria Schmitt, Julia Erb, Sarah Tune, and Jonas Obleser from the Obleser lab / Lübeck side, and our collaborators Anna Rysop and Gesa Hartwigsen from Gesa’s Lise Meitner group at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. This research was made possible by the ERC and the DFG.
Our lab is proud and happy that another major stepping stone from our ERC consolidator project (“AUDADAPT”) is now accepted for publication in PLoS Biology! Congratulations to our first author Dr Mohsen Alavash, now a senior researcher in the Obleser lab in his own right.
Whoop. “ Dear Dr Alavash,
I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been formally accepted for publication in PLOS Biology.” — w/ @sarahs_tunes @ObleserLab @PLOSBiology https://t.co/cw8AQpo9UE— Jonas Obleser (@jonasobleser) September 16, 2021