Author: Jonas

• 7 December 2019

  Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune win sci­ence award

  Con­grat­u­la­tions to AC post­docs Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune for receiv­ing the sci­ence award of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lübeck. Each year the uni­ver­si­ty hon­ors an out­stand­ing sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tion with this award. We are proud that Sarah and Mohsen were award­ed for their joint work on the neur­al net­work (re-)configurations sup­port­ing suc­cess­ful lis­ten­ing behav­ior. The study […]

• 9 November 2019

  New paper in press in the Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  Wöst­mann, Alavash and Obleser demon­strate that alpha oscil­la­tions in the human brain imple­ment dis­trac­tor sup­pres­sion inde­pen­dent of tar­get selection. In the­o­ry, the abil­i­ty to selec­tive­ly focus on rel­e­vant objects in our envi­ron­ment bases on selec­tion of tar­gets and sup­pres­sion of dis­trac­tion. As it is unclear whether tar­get selec­tion and dis­trac­tor sup­pres­sion are inde­pen­dent, we designed […]

• 9 September 2019

  New lab mem­ber Sebas­t­ian Puschmann

  We wel­come Dr. Sebas­t­ian Puschmann as a new post­doc in the Obleser/Auditory Cog­ni­tion lab! Sebas­t­ian has a back­ground in Physics. He received his train­ing in audi­to­ry cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Old­en­burg and the Mon­tre­al Neu­ro­log­i­cal Insti­tute. In Lübeck, Sebas­t­ian will push for­ward stud­ies on the neur­al mechan­ics and neur­al changes in hear­ing loss.      

• 21 August 2019

  New DFG project led by Mohsen Alavash on the Net­work Neu­ro­science of Spa­tial Attention

  Con­grat­u­la­tions to our cur­rent­ly ERC-fund­ed lab mem­ber and post­doc Mohsen Alavash who has just secured 3‑year fund­ing (~380,000 €) by the Deutsche Forschungs­ge­mein­schaft (DFG) for an ambi­tious project: Mohsen wants to get clos­er to a net­work/­graph-the­o­ret­i­cal descrip­tion of how spa­tial atten­tion in the lis­ten­ing brain is organ­ised. In a lat­er stage of the project, Mohsen […]

• 7 August 2019

  Jonas pre­sent­ed for the KIND Hörs­tiftung in Berlin (Video)

  Im Feb­ru­ar hat­te ich die Ehre, für die Kind Hörs­tiftung auf deren 2019er Sym­po­sium in Berlin unsere Arbeit­en zur Vorher­sage des Hör­erfol­gs exem­plar­isch anhand einiger unser­er Stu­di­en all­ge­mein­ver­ständlich zu beleucht­en. Ein 25-minütiges Video dieses Vor­trags ist jet­zt online. (In Feb­ru­ary, I had the hon­our of pre­sent­ing some of our recent work on pre­dict­ing indi­vid­u­als’ lis­ten­ing […]

• 30 July 2019

  New research grant with Sivantos

  Jonas and the lab are hap­py and thank­ful to announce a new research project fund­ed by Sivan­tos, Erlan­gen. We are look­ing very much for­ward to a renewed col­lab­o­ra­tion with the audi­o­log­i­cal sci­ence team around Ron­ny Han­ne­mann, begin­ning in Octo­ber 2019. The three-year project will look into the psy­cho­log­i­cal and neu­ro­bi­o­log­i­cal chal­lenges of attend­ing and ignor­ing for […]

• 20 March 2019

  AC post­doc Malte Wöst­mann scores DFG grant to study the tem­po­ral dynam­ics of the audi­to­ry atten­tion­al filter

  In this three-year project, we will use the audi­to­ry modal­i­ty as a test case to inves­ti­gate how the sup­pres­sion of dis­tract­ing infor­ma­tion (i.e., “fil­ter­ing”) is neu­ral­ly imple­ment­ed. While it is known that the atten­tion­al sam­pling of tar­gets (a) is rhyth­mic, (b) can be entrained, and © is mod­u­lat­ed by top-down pre­dic­tions, the exis­tence and neur­al imple­men­ta­tion of […]

• 20 March 2019

  New paper in press in the Jour­nal of Cog­ni­tive Neuroscience

  Wöst­mann, Schmitt and Obleser demon­strate that clos­ing the eyes enhances the atten­tion­al mod­u­la­tion of neur­al alpha pow­er but does not affect behav­iour­al per­for­mance in two lis­ten­ing tasks Does clos­ing the eyes enhance our abil­i­ty to lis­ten atten­tive­ly? In fact, many of us tend to close their eyes when lis­ten­ing con­di­tions become chal­leng­ing, for exam­ple on the […]

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