Author: Jonas
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Another chance for a funded postdoc with us:
Deadline March 15, 2019! Yet another Post-Doc slot to fill: COME WORK WITH US. I would love to hear from you. (English version to come) @obleserlab https://t.co/5Twiec7kLe — Jonas Obleser (@jonasobleser) February 21, 2019 (Here is the job ad in English.) Any informal inquiries: Please call or email Jonas. *** Should you be interested in working with us […]
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Jonas appointed reviewing editor for The Journal of Neuroscience
Happy and enormously honoured to start my tenure as a @JNeuroscience reviewing editor! https://t.co/yMNOht4Py9 — Jonas Obleser (@jonasobleser) January 3, 2019 After three very interesting and instructive years as a handling editor for Neuroimage, I have just accepted an invitation to join my favourite journal, the classic Journal of Neuroscience, as what they call “Reviewing editor” […]
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New paper in PNAS by Alavash, Tune, Obleser
How brain areas communicate shapes human communication: The hearing regions in your brain form new alliances as you try to listen at the cocktail party Obleserlab Postdocs Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune rock out an intricate graph-theoretical account of modular reconfigurations in challenging listening situations, and how these predict individuals’ listening success. Available online now in […]
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We are hiring: Come and do a postdoc with us!
I am hiring: Come do a 4‑y Postdoc with us in Lübeck at the @ObleserLab! Modellers and Causal-inference-folks should feel especially targeted. We have ample data to play with (and a few undergrads to teach stats to now and then). https://t.co/jtH9HHR4uP Please RT wi(l)d(e)ly. — Jonas Obleser (@jonasobleser) November 26, 2018 The official German-language job advert […]
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New paper by Erb et al. in Cerebral Cortex: Human but not monkey auditory cortex is tuned to slow temporal rates
In a new comparative fMRI study just published in Cerebral Cortex, AC postdoc Julia Erb and her collaborators in the Formisano (Maastricht University) and Vanduffel labs (KU Leuven) provide us with novel insights into speech evolution. These data by Erb et al. reveal homologies and differences in natural sound-encoding in human and non-human primate cortex. From […]
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New paper in Neuroimage by Fiedler et al.: Tracking ignored speech matters
Listening requires selective neural processing of the incoming sound mixture, which in humans is borne out by a surprisingly clean representation of attended-only speech in auditory cortex. How this neural selectivity is achieved even at negative signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) remains unclear. We show that, under such conditions, a late cortical representation (i.e., neural tracking) of the ignored acoustic signal […]
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New paper in press in the European Journal of Neuroscience: Wöstmann et al demonstrate that the power of prestimulus alpha oscillations directly relates to confidence in pitch-discrimination
What is the mechanistic relevance of neural alpha oscillations (~10 Hz) for perception? To answer this question, we analysed EEG data from a task that required participants to compare the pitch of two tones that were, unbeknownst to participants, identical. Importantly, this task entirely removed potential confounds of varying evidence in the stimulus or varying accuracy. […]
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New paper in press in JASA: Kreitewolf et al. on the role of voice-feature continuity for cocktail-party listening
Obleserlab postdoc Jens Kreitewolf is in press in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! Together with our colleagues, Marc Schönwiesner (Montreal/Leipzig), Samuel Mathias (Yale), and Régis Trapeau (Montreal/Marseille), we investigated the roles of two of the most salient voice features, glottal-pulse rate (GPR) and vocal-tract length (VTL), for perceptual grouping in the cocktail […]